{"id":83,"date":"2018-02-03T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-02-03T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:46:09","slug":"new-publication-predator-dependent-functional-response-key-oyster-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/2018\/02\/03\/new-publication-predator-dependent-functional-response-key-oyster-predator\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: Predator-dependent functional response of a key oyster predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper \u2013 in collaboration with David Kimbro (Northeastern) and Chris Stallings (USF) and led by former USF postdoc Tim Pusack (Williams\/Mystic) \u2013 shows that the southern oyster drill, an important predator on Gulf of Mexico oyster reefs, has lower per capita predation rates in larger groups. This means that oyster mortality during drill outbreaks may be slightly lower than otherwise expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022098117304392\">Pusack TJ, <strong>White JW<\/strong>, Tillotson H, Kimbro DL, Stallings CD. 2018<\/a>. Size-dependent feeding and intraspecific inhibition of an estuarine snail on oysters. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology\u00a0<\/em>501: 74-82<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper \u2013 in collaboration with David Kimbro (Northeastern) and Chris Stallings (USF) and led by former USF postdoc Tim Pusack (Williams\/Mystic) \u2013 shows that the southern oyster drill, an important predator on Gulf of Mexico oyster reefs, has lower per capita predation rates in larger groups. This means that oyster mortality during drill&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/2018\/02\/03\/new-publication-predator-dependent-functional-response-key-oyster-predator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/whitelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}