Quantifying hermit crab recruitment rates and megalopal shell selection on wave-swept shores

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 157, Issue , 1997, Pages 307-310

  Worcester, S E ^a,b   Gaines, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hermit crab; Pagurus hirsutiusculus; Recruitment; Shell limitation

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; HERMIT CRAB; MEGALOPA; RECRUITMENT; ROCK SHORE; ROCKY SHORES; SHELL PREFERENCE; SHELLS;

DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS HIRSUTIUSCULUS;

EID: 0030782414     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps157307     Document Type: Article

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