ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEMILUNAR CYCLES OF LARVAL RELEASE IN FIDDLER CRABS (GENUSUCA): TEST OF AN HYPOTHESIS
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- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 163 (2) , 251-263
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1541264
Abstract
The hypothesis that semilunar timing of larval release by fiddler crabs (genus Uca) results in transport of the final larval stage (megalopa) by spring tide cur...This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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