Habitat complexity and predator size mediate interactions between intraguild blue crab predators and mud crab prey in oyster reefs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 488, Issue , 2013, Pages 209-219

  Hill, Jennifer M ^a,b   Weissburg, Marc J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Callinectes sapidus; Intraguild predation; Oyster reef; Panopeus herbstii; Tethering

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT TYPE; INTRAGUILD INTERACTION; MESOCOSM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE USE; SIZE STRUCTURE;

EID: 84882426333     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10386     Document Type: Article

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