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The importance of predation by crabs and fishes on benthic infauna in Chesapeake Bay
| Title: | The importance of predation by crabs and fishes on benthic infauna in Chesapeake Bay. |
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| Name(s): |
Virnstein, Robert W., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1977 | |
| Publisher: | The Ecological Society of America | |
| Extent: | 20 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3174984 (digitool), FADT3174984 (IID), fau:5839 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
The significance of large motile predators in controlling the distribution and abundance of the macrobenthic invertebrates within the sediments (the infauna) in a shallow subtidal sand community was tested using manipulative field experiments. The blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) and 2 species of bottom—feeding fishes, spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) and hogchoker (Trinectes maculatus), were either excluded from or confined to small areas using wire mesh cages. This manuscript is available athttp://www.esajournals.org/loi/ecol and may be cited as: Virnstein, R. W. (1977). The importance of predation by crabs and fishes on benthic infauna in Chesapeake Bay. Ecology, 58(6), 1199-1217. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #85. |
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| Subject(s): |
Predation (Biology) Predatory animals--Ecology Benthic animals Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) Estuaries |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174984 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1977 The Ecological Society of America | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
