The positive effect of coexisting ecosystem engineers: a unique seaweed-mussel association provides refuge for native mud crabs against a non-indigenous predator.

Paula Tummon Flynn, Keegan McCarvill, K Devon Lynn, Pedro A Quijón

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Article in PeerJ, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paula Tummon FlynnDepartment of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada.

Keegan McCarvillDepartment of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada.

K Devon LynnDepartment of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada.

Pedro A QuijónDepartment of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada.

University of Prince Edward Island · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In marine sedimentary bottoms, mussels and macroalgae have long been recognized as important autogenic engineers that create habitat and modify abiotic conditions. The structural complexity added by bivalves and macroalgae may also mediate intraguild predation amongst marine decapod crustaceans. While spatial distributions of these ecosystem engineers frequently overlap, there is limited understanding of compounded effects when more than one engineer is present. Here we demonstrate that the coexistence of two ecosystem engineers may create habitat valuable for the survival of a small native species, the Atlantic mud crab (

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Blue musselGiant Irish mossNative mud crabNon-indigenous green crabPredationRefuge

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PMID33391877

DOI10.7717/peerj.10540

PMCPMC7759126

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