The American horseshoe crab
Shuster Jr., C.N.; Barlow, R.B.; Brockmann, H.J. (Ed.) (2003). The American horseshoe crab. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 0-674-01159-7. X, 427 pp.
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Fauna > Aquatic organisms > Aquatic animals > Shellfish > Marine organisms > Marine crustaceans
Crustacea [WoRMS]; Decapoda [WoRMS]; Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal |
| Authors | | Top |
- Shuster Jr., C.N., editor
- Barlow, R.B., editor
- Brockmann, H.J., editor
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- Barlow, R.B. (2003). Prologue, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 1-4, more
- Botton, M.L.; Harrington, B.A.; Tsipoura, N.; Mizrahi, D. (2003). Synchronies in migration: shorebirds, horseshoe crabs, and Delaware Bay, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 5-26, more
- Tsipoura, N. (2003). Physiological ecology of shorebirds during migration through the Delaware Bay area, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 27-32, more
- Mizrahi, D. (2003). The importance of weather systems and energy reserves to migrating semipalmated sandpipers, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 30-32, more
- Brockmann, H.J. (2003). Nesting behavior: a shoreline phenomenon, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 33-49, more
- Brockmann, H.J. (2003). Male competition and satellite behavior, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 50-82, more
- Barlow, R.B.; Powers, M.K. (2003). Seeing at night and finding mates: the role of vision, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 83-102, more
- Shuster Jr., C.N.; Sekiguchi, K. (2003). Growing up takes about ten years and eighteen stages, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 103-132, more
- Botton, M.L.; Shuster Jr., C.N.; Keinath, J.A. (2003). Horseshoe crabs in a food web: who eats whom?, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 133-150, more
- Keinath, J.A. (2003). Predation of horseshoe crabs by loggerhead sea turtles, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 152-153, more
- Shuster Jr., C.N.; Anderson, L.I. (2003). A history of skeletal structure: clues to relationships among species, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 154-188, 33 col. Pl., more
- Anderson, L.I.; Shuster Jr., C.N. (2003). Throughout geologic time: where have they lived?, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 189-224, more
- Towle, D.W.; Henry, R.P. (2003). Coping with environmental changes: physiological challenges, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 224-244, more
- Leibovitz, L.; Lewbart, G.A. (2003). Diseases and symbionts: vulnerability despite tough shells, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 245-275, more
- Shuster Jr., C.N. (2003). A blue blood: the circulatory system, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 276-287, more
- Armstrong, P.B. (2003). Internal defense against pathogenic invasion: the immune system, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 288-309, more
- Levin, J.; Hochstein, H.D.; Novitsky, T.J. (2003). Clotting cells and Limulus amebocyte lysate: an amazing analytical tool, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 310-340, more
- Shuster Jr., C.N. (2003). King crab fertilizer: a once-thriving Delaware Bay industry, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 341-357, more
- Shuster Jr., C.N.; Botton, M.L.; Loveland, R.E. (2003). Horseshoe crab conservation: a coast-wide management plan, in: Shuster Jr., C.N. et al. (Ed.) The American horseshoe crab. pp. 358-377, more
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| Abstract |
The American horseshoe crab that comes ashore on the East Coast in vast numbers to mate and nest is much the same creature that haunted the coast before the time of the dinosaurs. It is among the world's most intensely studied marine invertebrates, critical to our understanding of many groups of organisms, both modern and extinct, and crucial to the ecology of large estuaries such as the Delaware Bay. Some stocks of this great survivor, whose ancestors made it through the mass extinction some 286 million years ago, have been severely depleted today because of overfishing and habitat destruction. |
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