Behavioral plasticity, behavioral syndromes and animal personality in crustacean decapods: An imperfect map is better than no map

Current Zoology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 567-579

  Gherardi, Francesca ^a   Aquiloni, Laura ^a   Tricarico, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Animal welfare; Behavioral plasticity; Behavioral syndromes; Conservation; Crustacean decapods

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ASTACOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863972622     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/58.4.567     Document Type: Article

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