Analysis of multiple aspects of a repeated signal: Power and rate of rapping during shell fights in hermit crabs

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 74-79

  Briffa, Mark ^a   Elwood, Robert W ^a   Russ, Jon M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Hermit crabs; Multicomponent signals; Pagarus bernhardus; Power; Repeated signal

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CONTEST COMPETITION; CRAB; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGARUS;

EID: 0037283848     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.1.74     Document Type: Article

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