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The trophic ecology of caridean shrimps in an eelgrass community
| Title: | The trophic ecology of caridean shrimps in an eelgrass community. |
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| Name(s): |
Howard, Robert K., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1984 | |
| Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. | |
| Extent: | 21 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3331854 (digitool), FADT3331854 (IID), fau:6123 (fedora), 10.1016/0304-3770(84)90085-8 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Four species of caridean decapods together represent a productive elements of the epifauna of eelgrass beds in Western Port, Australia. The guild is dominated by a palaemonid species, Macrobrachium intermedium Stimpson, which was found to have a mean annual density of approximately 50 individuals m−2 and an annual productivity of 3.4 g ash-free dry mass m−2. Analyses of shrimp diets indicated that three species, M. intermedium, Hippolyte caradina Holthuis and Chlorotocella leptorhyncus (Stimpson), are consumers of both animal and plant material, while a single (crangonid) species, Pontophilus intermedius (Fulton and Grant), is a specialized carnivore. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03043770 and may be cited as: Howard, R. K. (1984). The trophic ecology of caridean shrimps in an eelgrass community. Aquatic Botany, 18(1-2), 155-174. doi:10.1016/0304-3770(84)90085-8 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #358. |
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| Subject(s): |
Shrimps Food chains (Ecology) Decapoda (Crustacea) Eelgrass |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3331854 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0304-3770(84)90085-8 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1984 Elsevier B.V. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
