Local, regional and global patterns of resource use in ecology: Hermit crabs and gastropod shells as an example

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 246, Issue , 2003, Pages 211-223

  Barnes, David K A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Frontier   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hermit crab; Intertidal; Resource use; Scale; Shells; West Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

CRAB; RESOURCE USE; SCALE EFFECT; SHELL;

ANIMALIA; CALCINUS; CLIBANARIUS; COENOBITA; COENOBITIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DARDANUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA TAXON); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIOGENES; DIOGENIDAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PAGURIDAE; PAGURUS;

EID: 0037448634     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps246211     Document Type: Article

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