Foraging across ecosystems: Diet diversity and social foraging spanning aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems by an invertebrate

Marine Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-89

  Laidre, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Cycling of organic matter and nutrients; Dietary ecology; Ecosystem; Energy flow; Food web; Foraging behavior; Terrestrial

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DIET; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

COSTA RICA; OSA PENINSULA; PUNTARENAS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHELONIIDAE; COENOBITA COMPRESSUS; COSTA (OSTRACODE); CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUNGI; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; OSA; PRUNUS DULCIS; SCYPHOZOA; TERMINALIA BELLIRICA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84874213827     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2012.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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