Smelling the difference: hermit crab responses to predatory and nonpredatory crabs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 691-695

  Rosen, Elyssa ^a   Schwarz, Birgit ^a   Palmer, A Richard ^a,b  

^a BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer productus; chemical cue; chemical ecology; Crustacea; hermit crab; Pagurus granosimanus; predator avoidance; predator recognition; Pugettia producta; signalling

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CHEMICAL CUE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CRAB; DISTURBANCE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; METABOLITE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; RECOGNITION; SEAWATER; SHELL; SIGNALING;

BRACHYURAN; CANCER PRODUCTUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; PAGURUS GRANOSIMANUS; PUGETTIA; PUGETTIA PRODUCTA;

EID: 69249222551     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.05.035     Document Type: Article

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