Predation is a dominant structuring force in ecological communities. In aquatic
environments, predation on bivalves has long been an important focal interaction for …

Members of the Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata), popularly known as starfish or sea
stars, are ecologically important and diverse members of marine ecosystems in all of the …

Trophic interactions govern biomass fluxes in ecosystems, and stability in food webs.
Knowledge of how trophic interaction strengths are affected by differences among habitats is …

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 …

The functional response of a consumer to a gradient of resource density is a widespread
and consistent framework used to quantify the importance of consumption to population …

Apart from ocean acidification, hypoxia is another stressor to marine organisms, especially
those in coastal waters. Their interactive effects of elevated CO 2 and hypoxia on the …

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 …

Functional responses relate a consumer's feeding rates to variation in its abiotic and biotic
environment, providing insight into consumer behaviour and fitness, and underpinning …

Food choice experiments were conducted to study the preferred seaweed diet of the sea
cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka). Six diets containing Sargassum thunbergii …

Predatory, non‐native fauna can influence biodiversity and trophic dynamics in invaded
ecosystems. Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) are a highly successful invader …