Intensive use of an intertidal mudflat by foraging adult American horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus

• 作 者: Wan-Jean LEE
• 机 构: DepartmentofBiologicalSciences
• 出 处: 动物学报
• 发表日期: 2010年5期
• 关键词: 觅食活动 潮间带 集约利用 泥滩 美国 鲎 大湾 成年 Foraging Epibenthic predator Intertidal Estuary
• 基金项目: Acknowledgements I thank the editors of this volume, C. Chabot and W. Watson, for the invitation to contribute a paper. I am especially grateful for the comments from the editors and two anonymous rev

<正> Although concerns about harvesting levels of the American Horseshoe Crab,Limulus polyphemus have prompted increasedresearch into its ecology,current understanding of the species' foraging ecology is mostly limited to mid-Atlantic populations