Effects of experience on crab foraging in a mobile and a sedentary species

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1149-1159

  Micheli, Fiorenza ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MERCENARIA MERCENARIA; OSTREIDAE; PANOPEUS HERBSTII; SCYLLA SERRATA; DECAPODA;

BLUE CRAB; EXPERIENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; MOBILE SPECIES; MUD CRAB; PREY SELECTION; SEDENTARY SPECIES;

EID: 0031150330     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0349     Document Type: Article

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