Species densities of macrobenthos associated with seagrass: A field experimental study of predation

Authors

David K. Young, Fort Pierce Bureau, RFD 1, Box 194-C, Smithsonian Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida, 33450, U.S.A.
Martin A. Buzas, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560, U.S.A.

Abstract

Caging experiments in a wide variety of marine environments over a period of almost fifty years have produced dramatic density increases of macrobenthos in the absence of predators. This study utilized predator exclusion cages in seagrass areas of a subtropical estuary in east central Florida to determine if predicted increases in density would result....

Recommended Citation

Young, David K., and Martin A. Buzas. 1976. "Species densities of macrobenthos associated with seagrass: A field experimental study of predation." Journal of Marine Research 34, (4). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/1377