Both below- and aboveground shoalgrass structure influence whelk predation on hard clams

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 451, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-92

  Goshima, Seiji ^a   Peterson, Charles H ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary contrast; Busycon carica; Habitat structure; Halodule wrightii; Mercenaria mercenaria; Permeability; Seagrass; Temporal refuge

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOUNDARY LAYER; BURROWING; COMPLEXITY; GASTROPOD; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INHIBITION; PERMEABILITY; PREDATION; REFUGE; SEAGRASS;

BIVALVIA; BUSYCON CARICA; CARICA; HALODULE WRIGHTII; MERCENARIA; MERCENARIA MERCENARIA;

EID: 84859755806     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09587     Document Type: Article

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