Aggression and food resource competition between sympatric hermit crab species.

The vertical zonation patterns of intertidal organisms have been topics of interest to marine ecologists for many years, with interspecific food competition being implicated as a contributing factor to intertidal community organization. In this study, we used behavioral bioassays to examine the pote...

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Main Authors: Mark V Tran, Matthew O'Grady, Jeremiah Colborn, Kimberly Van Ness, Richard W Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3954795?pdf=render