Assertion: horseshoe crab's egg | /r/HasProperty | important food
Facets:
value: for migrating red knots
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in spring
type: TEMPORAL
value: for other marine creatures."they're
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Hall explains that the eggs and young crabs are also important food for other marine creatures."They're a huge source of protein for fish recovering after the winter, and once the eggs hatch, the juveniles are food for juvenile fish.
text: In addition, the eggs of the horseshoe crab are an important part of the food web along the Atlantic coast as they provide food for many shore bird communities.
text: In spring, eggs of horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay are important food for migrating Red Knots (subspecies rufa), whereas in western North America subspecies roselaari Red Knots consume eggs of grunion (a small fish) before moving northward from Mexico.