Individual quality and personality: Bolder males are less fecund in the hermit crab pagurus bernhardus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1803, 2015, Pages

  Bridger, Danielle ^a   Bonner, Simon J ^b   Briffa, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boldness; Consistency; Fecundity; Intraindividual variation; Personality; Predictability

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CRAB; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PIGMENT; SPERMATOPHORE;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS BERNHARDUS;

EID: 84922495815     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2492     Document Type: Article

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