Balancing the edge effects budget: Bay scallop settlement and loss along a seagrass edge

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1637-1647

  Carroll, John M ^a   Furman, Bradley T ^a   Tettelbach, Stephen T ^b   Peterson, Bradley J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argopecten irradians; Bay scallops; Ecological trap; Edge effects; Landscape; Long Island; New York; Predation; Seagrass; USA

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; DOMINANCE; EDGE EFFECT; LANDSCAPE; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCALLOP;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; PECTINIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS;

EID: 84864187236     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1904.1     Document Type: Article

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