Plastic proteans: Reduced predictability in the face of predation risk in hermit crabs

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Briffa, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boldness; Hermit crab; Intra individual variation; Personality; Risk

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRAB; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PROTEA;

ANIMAL; ANOMURA; ARTICLE; BOLDNESS; HERMIT CRAB; INTRA-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RISK; STARTLE REFLEX;

BOLDNESS; HERMIT CRAB; INTRA-INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; PERSONALITY; RISK;

ANIMALS; ANOMURA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84947731543     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0592     Document Type: Article

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