Assessment games in shore crab fights

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 351, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 255-266

  Smallegange, Isabel M ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^b   van der Meer, Jaap ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cumulative assessment model; Interference competition; Resource holding potential; Sequential assessment model; War of attrition

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIVALVE; CRAB; FIGHTING; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MYTILUS EDULIS; PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 34548406040     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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