How rugged individualists enable one another to find food and shelter: Field experiments with tropical hermit crabs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1686, 2010, Pages 1361-1369

  Laidre, Mark E ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; Crustaceans; Cues; Foraging ecology; Inadvertent social information; Social learning

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; CHEMICAL CUE; COALESCENCE; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; FOOD SELECTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESOURCE SELECTION; SHELTER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; COENOBITA COMPRESSUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952277378     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1580     Document Type: Article

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