Juvenile Blue Crab Survival in Nursery Habitats: Predator Identification and Predation Impacts in Chesapeake Bay

• Main Author: Bromilow, Amanda Marie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2017
• Subjects: Aquaculture and Fisheries; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Population Biology; Sav’; York River; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639467; https://doi.org/10.21220/V5WM92; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/etd/article/1195/viewcontent/Bromilow_vims_0261P_10027.pdf

Predator populations can have significant impacts on prey recruitment success and prey population dynamics through consumption. Young, inexperienced prey are often most vulnerable to predation due to their small size and limited evasion capabilities. to reduce the risk of predation, new recruits and...