Can crabs kill like a keystone predator? A field-test of the effects of crab predation on mussel mortality on a northeast Pacific rocky shore

• Wesley W. Hull,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Telonicher Marine Laboratory, Humboldt State University, Trinidad, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

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• Paul E. Bourdeau

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peb112@humboldt.edu

  Affiliations Telonicher Marine Laboratory, Humboldt State University, Trinidad, California, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8927-1899

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