Size-dependent temperature and desiccation constraints on performance capacity: Implications for sexual selection in a fiddler crab

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 438, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-99

  Allen, Bengt J ^a,c   Rodgers, Brooke ^a,d   Tuan, Yuhao ^b   Levinton, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Anheuser Busch   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Locomotor performance; Stress; Thermal physiology; Trade off; Uca pugilator

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREEDING SITE; BURROW; CRAB; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; ECTOTHERMY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; HYDRATION; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

CELUCA PUGILATOR; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 84868256965     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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