Sun and landscape orientation in adult and juvenile sandhoppers Orchestoidea tuberculata (Amphipoda, Talitridae) from two beaches in south central Chile

Marine Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 19-27

  Scapini, Felicita ^a   Dugan, Jenifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Orientation; Pacific coast; Sandhoppers; Sandy beaches

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AMPHIPOD; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEACH; HABITAT STRUCTURE; JUVENILE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; SHORELINE;

CHILE; PACIFIC COAST [CHILE]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; ORCHESTOIDEA TUBERCULATA; TALITRIDAE;

EID: 44849116270     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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