Intensive use of an intertidal mudflat by foraging adult American horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus in the Great Bay estuary, New Hampshire

Current Zoology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 611-617

  Lee, Wan Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Epibenthic predator; Estuary; Foraging; Intertidal

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 77958181323     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/56.5.611     Document Type: Article

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