The presence of microplastics in the aquatic environment poses a serious threat not only to
aquatic organisms but also to human beings that consume them. The uptake and effects of …

Autotomy, the reflex severance of an appendage, is considered an adaptation to avoid
predators and limit wounds. While an autotomy response may provide immediate survival …

Abstract The North Atlantic portunid crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) has invaded
the North Pacific Ocean following more than two centuries of global dispersal due to human …

Shell fragments are important components of many Recent and fossil marine benthic
ecosystems and can provide crucial information on past and present environmental …

Newly settled blue crabs Callinectes sapidus generally grow through a series of early
juvenile instars (developmental stages punctuated by ecdysis) within seagrass and other …

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 …

Nonindigenous species are increasingly recognized as altering marine and estuarine
communities, causing significant changes in abundance and distribution of native species …

This paper briefly reviews our current understanding of prey size-selection in several
families of tropical and temperate water molluscivorous crabs. Differences in the …

Any treatment of durophagous (shell-breaking) predation on bivalves and gastropods
through geologic time must address the molluscivore's signature preserved in the victim's …