Differential snail predation by an exotic crab and the geography of shell-claw covariance in the northwest Atlantic

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1216-1228

  Edgell, Timothy C ^a,b   Rochette, Rémy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Carcinus; Invasive species; Littorina; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CRAB; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; REINTRODUCTION; SNAIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SNAIL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SNAILS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

ANIMALIA; CARCINUS; CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; LITTORINA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; LITTORINA OBTUSATA;

EID: 43049135213     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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