Clumping behavior as a strategy against drilling predation: Implications for the fossil record

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 367, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 174-179

  Casey, Michelle M ^a   Chattopadhyay, Devapriya ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dangerous Prey; Drill hole Stereotypy; Friday Harbor Laboratories; Muricid; Mussel; Mytilus; Nucella

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIVALVE; CRAB; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; GROUP BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

FRIDAY HARBOR; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; GASTROPODA; GEUKENSIA DEMISSA; INVERTEBRATA; MURICIDAE; MYTILUS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NUCELLA; NUCELLA LAMELLOSA;

EID: 56249093446     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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