Phylogenetic community ecology and the role of social dominance in sponge-dwelling shrimp

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 704-713

  Hultgren, Kristin M ^a   Duffy, J Emmett ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Coral reefs; Eusociality; Habitat filtering; Phylogenetic community ecology; Snapping shrimp; Spatial scale; Synalpheus

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CORAL REEF; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; RELATEDNESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPONGE; TERRITORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CENTRAL AMERICA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CARIBBEAN REGION; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ALPHEIDAE; ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SYNALPHEUS;

EID: 84862139835     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01788.x     Document Type: Article

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