American alligator digestion rate of Blue Crabs and its implications for stomach contents analysis

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 3, 2012, Pages 419-423

  Nifong, James C ^a   Rosenblatt, Adam E ^b   Johnson, Nathan A ^c   Barichivich, William ^c   Silliman, Brian R ^a   Heithaus, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRAB; CROCODILIAN; DATA SET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STOMACH CONTENT; TAXONOMY; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84867080524     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-11-177     Document Type: Article

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