Dominance hierarchies in xanthid crabs: Roles in resource-holding potential and field distributions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 291, Issue , 2005, Pages 189-196

  Brown, Kenneth M ^a   Keenan, Sean F ^a   Banks, Patrick D ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonism; Distributions; Dominance hierarchy; Mud crabs

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRAB; DOMINANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ADINA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EURYPANOPEUS DEPRESSUS; MENIPPE ADINA; OSTREIDAE; PANOPEUS SIMPSONI; SCYLLA SERRATA; XANTHIDAE;

EID: 19944362839     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps291189     Document Type: Article

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