In situ experiments were run with the seastar Asterias rubens to investigate the influence of epibiosis on predation preferences. Mussels (Mytilus edulis) monospecifically fouled by different epibiont species (the barnacle Balanus improvisus, the red filamentous alga Ceramium strictum, the sponge Halichondria panicea and the hydrozoan Laomedea flexuosa) and macroscopically clean mussels were exposed and seastar predation was monitored by SCUBA. Asterias rubens preferred macroscopical unfouled mussels as prey. Fouling generally reduced predation pressure on the mussel hosts (associational resistance). Barnacles protected mussels less efficiently than hydrozoans or algae. We hypothesize that in top-down controlled communities this influence o...
Coastal areas are amongst the most productive ecosystems in the world. Important components of thes...
Epibiosis is one of the closest interspecies associations. The presence of epibionts potentially cau...
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) are important keystone species that have been declining in the Gulf of...
In marine organisms, the relationship that arises between two individuals where one organism biofoul...
Epibiosis is an ecological relationship that has been described as one of the closest possible assoc...
International audiencehe dynamics determining the establishment and maintenance of epibiotic relatio...
In many benthic communities predators play a crucial role in the population dynamics of their prey. ...
If the external surfaces of epibionts are more suitable to other fouling species than those of their...
In the mobile sedimentary environment of San Antonio Bay (northern Patagonia), where hard substrate ...
In a dynamic environment such as the rocky marine intertidal zone, the stresses experienced by epib...
Mussels provide habitat for many organisms – so called epibionts – of the tidal flats by using the s...
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) can alter the strength of byssal attachment and move between and withi...
Mussels are important ecological engineers on intertidal rocks where they create habitat that contri...
At a subtidal, soft-bottom site in the western Baltic Sea, mussel (Mytilus edulis) patches co-occur ...
We tested the hypothesis that effects of predation by fish on epibiota are independent of the size o...
Coastal areas are amongst the most productive ecosystems in the world. Important components of thes...
Epibiosis is one of the closest interspecies associations. The presence of epibionts potentially cau...
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) are important keystone species that have been declining in the Gulf of...
In marine organisms, the relationship that arises between two individuals where one organism biofoul...
Epibiosis is an ecological relationship that has been described as one of the closest possible assoc...
International audiencehe dynamics determining the establishment and maintenance of epibiotic relatio...
In many benthic communities predators play a crucial role in the population dynamics of their prey. ...
If the external surfaces of epibionts are more suitable to other fouling species than those of their...
In the mobile sedimentary environment of San Antonio Bay (northern Patagonia), where hard substrate ...
In a dynamic environment such as the rocky marine intertidal zone, the stresses experienced by epib...
Mussels provide habitat for many organisms – so called epibionts – of the tidal flats by using the s...
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) can alter the strength of byssal attachment and move between and withi...
Mussels are important ecological engineers on intertidal rocks where they create habitat that contri...
At a subtidal, soft-bottom site in the western Baltic Sea, mussel (Mytilus edulis) patches co-occur ...
We tested the hypothesis that effects of predation by fish on epibiota are independent of the size o...
Coastal areas are amongst the most productive ecosystems in the world. Important components of thes...
Epibiosis is one of the closest interspecies associations. The presence of epibionts potentially cau...
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) are important keystone species that have been declining in the Gulf of...