Bioenergetics of the common seastar Asterias rubens: a keystone predator and pest for European bivalve culture

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• shellfish culture 100%
• bioenergetics 76%
• pest 67%
• predator 50%
• shellfish 36%
• energy budget 29%
• environmental conditions 20%
• predation 12%
• life cycle 10%
• pest species 10%
• mitigation 10%
• plastic 10%
• aquaculture production 9%
• ecophysiology 9%
• prey availability 8%
• top-down control 8%
• functional response 8%
• starvation 7%
• dynamic response 7%
• model validation 7%
• invasive species 6%
• plasticity 6%
• population dynamics 6%
• fishery 5%
• ecology 5%
• estuary 5%

Agriculture & Biology

• Asterias rubens 91%
• Bivalvia 58%
• energy metabolism 57%
• predators 43%
• pests 43%
• shellfish 39%
• Asterias 30%
• energy 19%
• environmental factors 16%
• life cycle (organisms) 11%
• predation 10%
• plastics 10%
• Biological Sciences 9%
• model validation 8%
• ecophysiology 8%
• Northern European region 7%
• estuaries 6%
• mussels 6%
• invasive species 6%
• fisheries 6%
• aquaculture 6%
• starvation 5%
• population dynamics 5%
• plasticity 5%
• reproductive performance 5%