HABITAT FRAGMENTATION IN A SEAGRASS LANDSCAPE: PATCH SIZE AND COMPLEXITY CONTROL BLUE CRAB SURVIVAL

By K. Hovel, R. Lipcius. 2001

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Effects of seagrass landscape structure, structural complexity and hydrodynamic regime on macrofaunal densities in North Carolina seagrass beds (2002, unknown): “Of the species we collected, only the commercially important blue crab (Hovel 1999, Hovel & Lipcius 2001) has been used in previous studies comparing the effects of landscape structure and structural complexity on survival and abundance.”
Review of nekton patterns and ecological processes in seagrass landscapes (2006, methodology): “The predation model has also been the most frequently tested (Table 3), especially with fish (Laurel et al., 2003a) and large crustaceans (Peterson et al., 2001; Hovel and Lipcius, 2001, 2002) using natural seagrass and ASUs.”
Intertidal migration and habitat use by subadult Dungeness crab Cancer magister in a NE Pacific estuary (2006, background): “Vegetative structure has been shown to impede the movements of Callinectes sapidus migrating into littoral areas during flood tides (Kneib 1995), and patch size has been shown to impact abundance of prey by impeding predators (Eggleston et al. 1999, Hovel & Lipcius 2001).”
Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges (2011, background): “In seagrasses, predation risk is higher along edges (Irlandi 1994, Bologna & Heck 1999a, Peterson et al. 2001) as well as in larger patches and connected ecosystems due to higher predator densities (Hovel & Lipcius 2001, Laurel et al. 2003).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “…(Frost et al., 1999; Hirst and Attrill, 2008; MacReadie et al., 2009), inconsistent (Bell et al., 2001) or even positive (Eggleston et al., 1998; Hovel and Lipcius, 2001) impacts on epifaunal diversity and abundance, fragmentation beyond a threshold level can lead to rapid declines in species…”
Food availability and growth of the blue crab in seagrass and unvegetated nurseries of Chesapeake Bay (2005, background): “Seagrass beds typically have been considered the principal and optimal nursery grounds for juvenile blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay (Heck and Thoman, 1984; Eggleston et al., 1998; Pardieck et al., 1999; Hovel and Lipcius, 2001; Heck et al., 2001) because of their structural complexity, which offers pro”
Revealing stock–recruitment relationships in lobsters and crabs: is experimental ecology the key? (2003, background): “…65 (2003) 3–32 17 C. sapidus East US, Gulf of Mexico Pile et al. (1996), Eggleston et al. (1998b) Hines and Ruiz (1995), Moksnes et al. (1997), Hovel and Lipcius (2001) Eggleston et al. (1998b), Etherington and Eggleston (2000) – – – C. maenas North Europe Dumas and Witman (1993) Moksnes et…”
Effect of habitat complexity on predation success: re-evaluating the current paradigm in seagrass beds (2009, background): “…permitted without written consent of the publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 393: 37–46, 2009 grass density is negatively correlated with predator success (Nelson 1979, Heck & Thoman 1981, Crowder & Cooper 1982, Stoner 1982, Orth et al. 1984, Jordan et al. 1996, Hovel & Lipcius 2001, Adams et al. 2004).”
Predators, Prey Refuges, and the Spatial Scaling of Density-Dependent Prey Mortality (2004, background): “Examples include sea grass beds (Hovel and Lipcius 2001), macrophytes (Werner et al. 1983, Babbitt and Tanner 1998), macroalgae (Moksnes et al. 1998, Anderson 2001) and branching corals (Beukers and Jones 1998).”
Hard prey specialists or opportunistic generalists? An examination of the diet of the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus (2007, background): “2001) and seagrass beds (Orth 1975; Hovel and Lipcius 2001).”
Effects of seagrass habitat fragmentation on juvenile blue crab survival and abundance (2002, methodology): “bias was detected for juvenile blue crabs tethered in three different artificial shoot densities in the lab (Hovel and Lipcius, 2001; Hovel, unpublished data). Similarly, Pile et al. (1996) detected no treatment-specific bias for blue crabs tethered in either vegetated or unvegetated sediment.”
Seagrass habitat disturbance : how loss and fragmentation of eelgrass Zostera marina influences epifaunal abundance and diversity (2006, background): “For instance, juvenile blue crab Callinectes sapidus survival was inversely correlated with eelgrass patch size in late spring, but not in late summer (Hovel & Lipcius 2001).”
What constitutes essential nursery habitat for a marine species? A case study of habitat form and function for queen conch (2003, background): “…show that survival of various economically significant invertebrates in seagrass meadows varies with habitat location, patch size, and the types and abundance of predators foraging in specific locations (Peterson 1986, Bologna & Heck 1999, Hovel & Lipcius 2001, Peterson et al. 2001, this study).”