Dispersion, feeding behavior and competition in two spionid polychaetes

Abstract

Spatial analysis, laboratory and field experiments, and feeding observations indicate contrasting patterns of aggression in the polychaetes Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata (Okuda) and Streblospio benedicti (Webster) and provide the first evidence of territoriality in a spionid polychaete (Pseudopolydora)...