Costs of a more spacious home after remodelling by hermit crabs

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 77, 2012, Pages 3574-3577

  Laidre, Mark E ^a   Patten, Eli ^b   Pruitt, Lisa ^b  

^a 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building no 3140 ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal homes and shelter; Architecture; Hermit crabs; Predation; Remodelling; Shells

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARCHITECTURE; SHELLFISH;

ANIMAL KINGDOM; BUILDING STRUCTURE; HERMIT CRABS; IN-BUILDINGS; PREDATION; REMODELLING; SHELLS;

COMMERCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL SHELL; ARTICLE; BITE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FORCE; HERMIT CRAB; HOME; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR;

EID: 84867793156     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0501     Document Type: Article

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