Burrowing behaviour inferred from feeding traces of the opheliid polychaete Euzonus sp. as response to beach morphodynamics

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1199-1206

  Seike, Koji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; BEACH PROFILE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BURROWING; FEEDING ECOLOGY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; POLYCHAETE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EUZONUS; OPHELIIDAE; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 39649117955     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0893-8     Document Type: Article

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