Resumen
Disease increases susceptibility of sea urchins to predation by precluding natural defensive behaviors including spine projection, strong attachment to the substratum, and aggregation. Rock crabs preferred diseased or narcotized sea urchins over healthy ones and fed upon them at a much higher rate than crabs given only healthy sea urchins as prey. Rock crabs showed no significant preference between diseased and narcotized sea urchins. Rock crabs clearly preferred mussels over healthy or diseased sea urchins.-from Author
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 1847-1851 |
Número de páginas | 5 |
Publicación | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences |
Volumen | 41 |
N.º | 12 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - 1984 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Aquatic Science