Size-related habitat shifts facilitated by positive preference induction in a marine kelp crab

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 329-336

  Hultgren, Kristin M ^a   Stachowicz, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Kelp forest; Ontogenetic habitat shift; Positive preference induction; Pugettia producta; Size

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DIET; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FITNESS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; MORTALITY; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ALGAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PUGETTIA; PUGETTIA PRODUCTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 76749091435     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp192     Document Type: Article

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