Behavioral indirect interactions: Multiple predator effects and prey switching in the rocky subtidal

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2938-2945

  Siddon, Christopher E ^a,b   Witman, Jon D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer borealis; Homarus americanus; Indirect effects; Isles of Shoals, maine; Multiple predators; Predation; Prey switching; Shallow rocky subtidal; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis; Structural complexity; Trait mediated indirect interaction; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIETARY SHIFT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ISLES OF SHOALS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CANCER BOREALIS; CANCRIDAE; CODIUM; CODIUM FRAGILE; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIPLOSOMA; ECHINOIDEA; HOMARUS; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; LOBSTER; NEPHROPIDAE; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 9244231822     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0519     Document Type: Article

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