Intensive use of an intertidal mudflat by foraging adult American horseshoe crabs Limulus polyphemus in the Great Bay estuary, New Hampshire

Although concerns about harvesting levels of the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus have prompted increased research into its ecology, current understanding of the species’ foraging ecology is mostly limited to mid-Atlantic populations. This study elucidates the spatial and temporal pattern...

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Main Author: Wan-Jean LEE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2010-10-01
Series:Current Zoology
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Online Access:http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11670