Female fiddler crabs settle for less: the travel costs of mate choice

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1775-1781

  Booksmythe, Isobel ^a   Detto, Tanya ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fiddler crab; mate choice; trade off; travel cost; Uca mjoebergi

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRAB; MATE CHOICE; OPTIMIZATION; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE COST; TRADE-OFF;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 56049127898     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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