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Predation: a causal mechanism for variability in intertidal bivalve populations
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Results from the enclosure indicate that crab predation was responsible for a reduction of both species of bivalve even at high naturally occurring crab densities, which may be one of the causal mechanisms for both the spatial and temporal variability shown in populations of M. balthica and C. edule.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.The article was published on 1999-08-17. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Carcinus & Cerastoderma edule.read more
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Decline of recruitment success in cockles and other bivalves in the Wadden Sea: possible role of climate change, predation on postlarvae and fisheries
Jan J. Beukema,Rob Dekker +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the recruitment trends on Balgzand (and other parts of the Wadden Sea) are governed primarily by natural processes, in particular increases in predation pressure on early benthic stages, which in turn appears to be largely governed by the warming climate.
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Death by dissolution: Sediment saturation state as a mortality factor for juvenile bivalves
TL;DR: It is shown that death by dissolution is an important size-dependent mortality factor for juvenile bivalves and buffering muds against the metabolic acids that cause lowered saturation states may represent a potentially important management strategy to decrease dissolution mortality.
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Dissolution mortality of juvenile bivalves in coastal marine deposits
TL;DR: Dissolution-induced mortality may help explain the exponential losses of juvenile bivalves following their transition from the pelagic larval phase to the benthic juvenile phase.
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Diversity, biomass and ecosystem processes in the marine benthos.
TL;DR: The results suggest that diversity/biomass/ecosystem function relationships in the soft sediment benthos are likely to be very complex and may depend more on functional groups than species richness.
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Origins and Early Evolution of Predation
TL;DR: Although predation was a decisive selective force in the Cambrian explosion, it was a shaper rather than a trigger of this evolutionary event, representing the transition from simple, mostly microbial, ecosystems to ones with complex food webs and second- and higher-order consumers.
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