Increased habitat structure does not always provide increased refuge from predation

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 361, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-20

  Mattila, Johanna ^a,b   Heck Jr , Kenneth L ^a   Millstein, Erika ^a   Miller, Emily ^a   Gustafsson, Camilla ^a,b   Williams, Savannah ^a   Byron, Dorothy ^a  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Experiment; Lagodon rhomboides; Palaemonetes pugio; Prey survival; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LABORATORY METHOD; PERCIFORM; PHYTOMASS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; REFUGE; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SURVIVAL;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LAGODON; LAGODON RHOMBOIDES; PALAEMONETES PUGIO; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 47149085240     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07392     Document Type: Article

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