Behavioral Ecology of Semiterrestrial Crayfish

Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Richardson, Alastair M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohabitation; Dispersal; Extended parental care; Overlapping generations; Terrestrial burrows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179927.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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