The Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus: 200 Million Years of Existence, 100 Years of Study

By E. Walls, J. Berkson, Stephen A. Smith. 2002

193 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. T. Piersma
2. Anne Dekinga
3. J. Newton
4. R. A. Robinson
5. J. Clark
6. Simon Gillings
7. N. Clark
8. Anthony David Fox

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. T. Piersma
2. Anne Dekinga
3. J. Newton
4. R. A. Robinson
5. P. Atkinson
6. Anthony David Fox

In Paleontology

1. G. Young
2. T. Piersma
3. D. Rudkin

Citations in the corpus

• Using the power of comparison to explain habitat use and migration strategies of shorebirds worldwide (2007, background): “…from the early 1990s onwards, the harvesting of horseshoe crabs for bait and the biomedical industry underwent an order of magnitude increase (Walls et al. 2002) and, consequently, the large masses of spawning crabs that characterized so many beaches around Delaware Bay (Myers 1986) became a…”
• Conservation status of the American horseshoe crab, (Limulus polyphemus): a regional assessment (2017, background): “Historically, horseshoe crabs have been considered bycatch in commercial fisheries targeted at other species and, as such, returned to the water (Walls et al. 2002).”
• Rates of mass gain and energy deposition in red knot on their final spring staging site is both time‐ and condition‐dependent (2007, background): “The harvesting of horseshoe crabs for bait and the biomedical industry has undergone an order of magnitude increase since the mid-1990s (Walls et al. 2002) and has been restricted recently due to concerns that the reduction in the number of adult spawning crabs has reduced the number of eggs…”
• Horseshoe Crabs – An Ancient Ancestry Revealed (2009, background): “One thing remains certain above all else – after having survived a total of five major extinction intervals over a history now traceable back through 445 million years, the horseshoe crab lineage may now be closer to disappearing than ever before ... literally at the hands of our own species (Tanacr”