Using molecular prey detection to quantify rock lobster predation on barrens-forming sea urchins

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3849-3869

  Redd, K S ^a   Ling, S D ^a   Frusher, S D ^a   Jarman, S ^b   Johnson, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centrostephanus rodgersii; diet; DNA detection; faeces; Heliocidaris erythrogramma; Jasus edwardsii; kelp beds; predation rates; predator prey interactions; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; sea urchin barrens

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; CENTROSTEPHANUS RODGERSII; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORAL REEF; DIET; DNA DETECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; HELIOCIDARIS ERYTHROGRAMMA; JASUS EDWARDSII; KELP BEDS; PALINURIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PREDATION RATES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHIN; SEA URCHIN BARRENS;

CENTROSTEPHANUS RODGERSII; DIET; DNA DETECTION; FAECES; HELIOCIDARIS ERYTHROGRAMMA; JASUS EDWARDSII; KELP BEDS; PREDATION RATES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA URCHIN BARRENS;

ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; DNA; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; PALINURIDAE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEA URCHINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84904626124     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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