Is the Collapse of Mud Shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) Populations Along the Pacific Coast of North America Caused by Outbreaks of a Previously Unknown Bopyrid Isopod Parasite (Orthione griffenis)?

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 336-350

  Dumbauld, Brett R ^a   Chapman, John W ^b   Torchin, Mark E ^c   Kuris, Armand M ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Introduced species; Local extinctions; Neotrypaea californiensis; Parasitic castrator; Thalassinidea

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COEXISTENCE; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LARVA; LOCAL EXTINCTION; NATIVE SPECIES; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

OREGON; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WILLAPA BAY; YAQUINA BAY;

BOPYRIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); NEOTRYPAEA CALIFORNIENSIS; ORTHIONE GRIFFENIS; THALASSINIDAE; THALASSINIDEA; UPOGEBIA PUGETTENSIS; UPOGEBIIDAE;

EID: 79751525804     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9316-z     Document Type: Article

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