Territorial battles between fiddler crab species [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Many species worldwide are impacted by habitat loss. This may result in increased competition both within species and between species. Many studies have demonstrated that when two previously non-overlapping species are forced to compete over a resource ...
H. L. Clark, P. R. Y. Backwell
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N2 fixation dominates nitrogen cycling in a mangrove fiddler crab holobiont [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 Mangrove forests are among the most productive and diverse ecosystems on the planet, despite limited nitrogen (N) availability. Under such conditions, animal-microbe associations (holobionts) are often key to ecosystem functioning.
Mindaugas Zilius +7 more
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Population Dynamics of the Fiddler Crab Tubuca rhizophorae (Tweedie, 1950) in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThis study investigates the population characteristics of the fiddler crab, Tubuca rhizophorae, at two sites in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Monthly samples were collected from March 2024 to February 2025 in Dong Hai, Bac Lieu and Dam Doi, Ca Mau ...
Anh Ngoc Tran +6 more
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The fiddler crab, Minuca pugnax, follows Bergmann's rule [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Bergmann's rule predicts that organisms at higher latitudes are larger than ones at lower latitudes. Here, we examine the body size pattern of the Atlantic marsh fiddler crab, Minuca pugnax (formerly Uca pugnax), from salt marshes on the east coast of ...
David Samuel Johnson +5 more
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Reduced genetic diversity and alteration of gene flow in a fiddler crab due to mangrove degradation. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 The fiddler crab Austruca occidentalis is a dominant species in mangrove forests along the East African coast. It enhances soil aeration and, through its engineering activities, makes otherwise-inaccessible food available for other marine organisms ...
Nehemia A, Kochzius M.
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Effects of Fiddler Crab Burrows on Sediment Properties in the Mangrove Mudflats of Sungai Sepang, Malaysia [PDF]
Biology, 2016 In mangrove ecosystems, litter fall accumulates as refractory organic carbon on the sediment surface and creates anoxic sediment layers. Fiddler crabs, through their burrowing activity, translocate oxygen into the anoxic layers and promote aerobic ...
Mohammad Mokhtari +3 more
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Tubuca alcocki, a new pseudocryptic species of fiddler crab from the Indian Ocean, sister to the southeastern African T. urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 A new pseudocryptic species of fiddler crab, Tubuca alcocki sp. n., is described from the northern Indian Ocean. The new species was previously identified with T. urvillei (H.
Hsi-Te Shih +2 more
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Fiddling with the blue carbon: Fiddler crab burrows enhance CO2 and CH4 efflux in saltmarsh
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Saltmarshes are important global carbon (C) sinks, but the considerable uncertainty in the C budget and the underlying mechanisms limit the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG, e.g., CO2 and CH4) in the context of global climate change.
Laura E. Agusto +10 more
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Fiddler crab bioturbation determines consistent changes in bacterial communities across contrasting environmental conditions. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Ecosystem functions are regulated by compositional and functional traits of bacterial communities, shaped by stochastic and deterministic processes.
Booth JM +4 more
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Parallel processing of polarization and intensity information in fiddler crab vision. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2019 Fiddler crabs process intensity and polarization information independently and in parallel to enhance visual contrast. Many crustaceans are sensitive to the polarization of light and use this information for object-based visually guided behaviors.
Smithers SP, Roberts NW, How MJ.
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