Benthic predators and northern quahog (=hard clam) (Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus, 1758) populations

Journal of Shellfish Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 995-1010

  Polyakov, O ^a   Kraeuter, J N ^b   Hofmann, E E ^a   Buckner, S C ^c   Bricelj, V M ^d   Powell, E N ^b   Klinck, J M ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Town of Islip   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic predators; Crab predation; Empirical orthogonal function analysis; Hard clam; Mercenaria mercenaria; Quahog

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DYSPANOPEUS SAYI; MERCENARIA; MERCENARIA MERCENARIA; XANTHIDAE;

EID: 38349013947     PISSN: 07308000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2983/0730-8000(2007)26[995:BPANQH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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