Behavioural adaptation to different salinities in the sandhopper Talitrus saltator (Crustacea: Amphipoda): Mediterranean vs Baltic populations

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 275-281

  Fanini, Lucia ^a,b   Marchetti, Giovanni M ^b   Baczewska, Anna ^c   Sztybor, Kamila ^c   Scapini, Felicita ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

behavioural adaptation; evolvability; supralittoral amphipods

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMPHIPOD; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BURROW; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; KEYSTONE SPECIES; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84857271034     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF11127     Document Type: Article

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