The habit of clustering was studied within a semilunar tide cycle in the mangrove-dwelling hermit crab Clibanarius laevimanus. Notwithstanding the stability with time of aggregation size, shape, spatial position and shell-size composition together with the relatively strong site-attachment showed by these hermits, one individual's probability of changing cluster was high. Some hypotheses are set forth to explain the adaptive meaning of this behaviour.
Preliminary observations of the clustering behaviour of the tropical hermit crab, Clibanarius laevimanus / F. GHERARDI; F. MICHELI; M. VANNINI. - In: ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. - ISSN 0394-9370. - STAMPA. - 1:(1990), pp. 151-153.
Preliminary observations of the clustering behaviour of the tropical hermit crab, Clibanarius laevimanus.
GHERARDI, FRANCESCA;VANNINI, MARCO
1990
Abstract
The habit of clustering was studied within a semilunar tide cycle in the mangrove-dwelling hermit crab Clibanarius laevimanus. Notwithstanding the stability with time of aggregation size, shape, spatial position and shell-size composition together with the relatively strong site-attachment showed by these hermits, one individual's probability of changing cluster was high. Some hypotheses are set forth to explain the adaptive meaning of this behaviour.
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