Estimating the potential impacts of large mesopredators on benthic resources: Integrative assessment of spotted eagle ray foraging ecology in Bermuda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ajemian, Matthew J ^a,b   Powers, Sean P ^a,b   Murdoch, Thaddeus J T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^c Bermuda Zoological Society   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BERMUDA; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDATOR STRESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STOMACH CONTENT; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BERMUDA; BIVALVIA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROPODA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SHELLFISH; SKATES (FISH);

AETOBATUS NARINARI; BIVALVIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MACROCALLISTA MACULATA; MOLLUSCA; MYLIOBATINAE;

EID: 84863624886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040227     Document Type: Article

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