Hermit crab biocoenoses: a worldwide review of the diversity and natural history of hermit crab associates

By Jason D. Williams, J. McDermott. 2004

235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. J. Wright
2. Clive G. Jones
3. Isabelle Deschênes
4. C. Dumont
5. D. Drolet
6. J. Himmelman
7. L. Cavieres
8. E. Badano

In Oceanography

1. Clive G. Jones
2. J. Wright

Citations in the corpus

• Multiple factors explain the covering behaviour in the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (2007, background): “Similarly, decorator crabs commonly attach materials to their exoskeleton, and hermit crabs attach materials to the shells they occupy, as camouflage from visual predators, and they sometimes select materials that deter predators (Wicksten 1993; Stachowicz & Hay 2000; Williams & McDermott 2004).”
• The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges (2006, background): “…and Finzi 1998, Dorn and Mittelbach 1999, Coleman and Williams 2002, Crooks 2002, Emmerling et al. 2002, Scheu 2003, Williams and McDermott 2004, Wright and Jones 2004), application of the principles of engineering science to organismal ecosystem engineering (Thomas et al. 2000), and…”