Fitness benefits and costs of shelters to the sea urchin Glyptocidaris crenularis

Understanding the ecological role of shelters is greatly hampered by the scarcity of long-term laboratory experiments on the trade-off between fitness benefits and costs. This lack probably leads to an underestimation of the negative and/or positive effects on behaviors and growth of marine inverteb...

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Main Authors: Xiaomei Chi, Jiangnan Sun, Yushi Yu, Jia Luo, Bao Zhao, Feng Han, Yaqing Chang, Chong Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-04-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8886.pdf