Impact of an ecological factor on the costs of resource acquisition: Fighting and metabolic physiology of crabs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 808-815

  Sneddon, L U ^a   Huntingford, F A ^a   Taylor, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agonistic behaviour; Carcinus maenas; Hypoxia; L lactate; Relative size

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; COST; METABOLISM;

EID: 0031701843     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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