Crab fisheries play a crucial role in global fishery economics, but they heavily rely on wild
catches. With the decline and exploratory limits of wild populations, expanding the scale and …

Evolutionary explanations of the adaptive value of animal characteristics are often
expressed in energetic terms, but unless they are accompanied by demonstrations of limited …

Newly settled invertebrates usually are subject to high rates of mortality (Type 111
survivorship). Therefore, knowledge of early post-settlement events is critical in determ …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the geographical and local distribution of scallop
populations, concentrating on the species of commercial importance. It also discusses the …

The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, is a common and commercially important bivalve
species residing in shallow marine ecosystems dominated by seagrasses. However, unlike …

Examples of bone exploitation by carnivorous theropod dinosaurs are relatively rare,
representing an apparent waste of both mineral and energetic resources. A review of the …

Near the island of Sylt in the Wadden Sea (German Bight, North Sea), seastars Asterias
rubens (L.) co-occur with their preferred prey, mussels Mytilus edulis (L.), which form …

We examined prey selection and foraging behaviors of the crab Charybdis japonica
exposed to four combinations of pH (7.3 and 8.1) and temperature (18° C and 25° C). The …

Human damage to biogenic substrata such as maerl has been receiving increasing attention
recently. Maerl forms highly biodiverse and heterogeneous habitats composed of loose …

In mid rocky intertidal habitats the mussel Perumytilus purpurarus monopolizes the
substratum to the detriment of many other species. However, the consumption of mussels by …