Green crab (carcinus maenas) foraging efficiency reduced by fast flows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Robinson, Elizabeth M ^a   Smee, Delbert L ^a   Trussell, Geoffrey C ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINUS MAENAS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOW RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; WALKING SPEED; WATER FLOW; ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; LABORATORY; TIME;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

WATER;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; HYDRODYNAMICS; LABORATORIES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 79958109846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021025     Document Type: Article

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