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- noun Plural form of
dogwhelk .
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Examples
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Within the last century, the Gulf of Maine has experienced reductions in the size and abundance of native predators of dogwhelks, increases in ocean temperatures and invasions of new predators, and all three factors could have played a role.
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Overfishing of native predators of dogwhelks, such as fish, and increases in temperatures could have lowered mortality and increased growth, both of which would cause an increase in size.
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At the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, he did a historical comparison with dogwhelks gathered almost a century ago around the Gulf of Maine.
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Because those sites were well documented, colleague Peter Petraitis from the University of Pennsylvania could collect more dogwhelks from the same places.
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Possible explanations include more abundant food supply for the snails, warmer waters, and preferential culling of smaller dogwhelks by the predator crabs.
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For his doctoral thesis, the Queen's University biologist was studying a worm borer that attacks dogwhelks, a twisty-shelled snail common along North Atlantic shorelines.
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