Shell-size preference of hermit crabs depends on their growth rate

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Wada, Satoshi ^a   Ohmori, Hirofumi ^b   Goshima, Seiji ^b   Nakao, Shigeru ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HERMIT CRAB; SHELL SIZE; SHELLS;

DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS; PAGURUS MIDDENDORFFII;

EID: 0031193398     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0319     Document Type: Article

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