Cannibalistic crabs respond to the scent of injured conspecifics: Danger or dinner?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 300, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-200

  Ferner, Matthew C ^a   Smee, Delbert L ^a   Chang, Yin P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm chemical; Avoidance behavior; Conflicting cues; Foraging tradeoffs; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; CRAB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INJURY; OLFACTION; PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MENIPPE MERCENARIA;

EID: 26944486628     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps300193     Document Type: Article

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