Why do fiddler crabs build chimneys?

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 616-618

  Slatyer, R A ^a   Fok, E S Y ^a   Hocking, R ^a   Backwell, P R Y ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chimneys; Fiddler crab; Structure building

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING; MUD;

ARTICLE; BURROWING SPECIES; CHIMNEY; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UCA CAPRICORNIS;

CAPRICORNIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 58149234987     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0387     Document Type: Article

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