Response of Ocypode quadrata to storm waves on an urbanized sandy beach [PDF]
Ocean and Coastal Research, 2021 Extreme climate events cause major disturbances to the fauna of sandy beaches. For abiotic-controlled species, storm waves play a significant role in controlling populations.
Fernanda Ramos Fernandes de Oliveira +1 more
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Burrowing behavior and burrowing energetics of a bioindicator under human disturbance [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Bioindicator species are extensively used for rapid assessment of ecological changes. Their use commonly focuses on changes in population abundance and individual sizes in response to environmental change.
Mustafa R. Gül, Blaine D. Griffen
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Potential long-term disturbance associated with beach nourishment - insights and observations from Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Outer Banks, North Carolina [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 The longer-term ecosystem impacts associated with a beach nourishment project conducted in 2014 were studied on an ocean beach on the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Paul Paris, Anya Leach, D. Reide Corbett
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Biotic and abiotic factors affecting Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) spatiotemporal activity at an important shorebird nesting site in Virginia. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAtlantic ghost crabs (Ocypode quadrata) are predators of beach-nesting shorebird nests and chicks on the United States' Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Ghost crabs may also disturb birds, altering foraging, habitat use, or nest and brood attendance patterns ...
Mikayla N Call +8 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Sandy beaches are the most common ecosystems of coastal regions and provide direct and indirect essential services for millions of people, such as coastal protection, fishing, tourism, and recreational activities.
Ilana Zalmon +2 more
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Urbanization driving Ocypode quadrata burrow density, depth, and width across Caribbean beaches
Ecological Indicators, 2023 Globally, sandy beaches support local economies and are the most commonly-used type of coastline. This importance is perhaps most striking in the Caribbean; however, no study has assessed the morphological features of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) sandy
Kaliegh Schlender +4 more
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Predator Diet and Trophic Position Modified with Altered Habitat Morphology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Empirical patterns that emerge from an examination of food webs over gradients of environmental variation can help to predict the implications of anthropogenic disturbance on ecosystems.
Alexander Tewfik +3 more
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Vertical distribution by demographic groups of ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Crustacea: Brachyura)
Biologia (Poland), 2014 The ghost crab Ocypode quadrata plays an important role in energy transfer between trophic levels, and has been widely used in evaluations of impacted environments. In order to provide data on the biology of this potential bioindicator species, the population structure and vertical distribution of individuals were studied on two beaches in southeastern
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Hemolymph supply to locomotor muscles of the ghost crab Ocypode quadrata [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2021 ABSTRACT Ghost crabs are the fastest and most aerobically fit of the land crabs. The exceptional locomotory capacity of these invertebrate athletes seemingly depends upon effective coupling between the cardiovascular system and skeletal muscles, but how these systems are integrated has not been well defined.
Siyuan Yang +3 more
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Natural diet of Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Northern Coast of São Paulo, Brazil [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2019 Decapod crustaceans have a wide variety of feeding habits, alternating among herbivory, predation, saprophagy, and filtration. The occupation of various trophic positions in the food web is a key feature in the evolution of the group.
Tassia Turini Gomes +3 more
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