Terrestrial Hermit Crab Populations in the Maldives

Ecology, Distribution and Anthropogenic Impact
Buch | Softcover
XIII, 53 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-29540-0 (ISBN)

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Terrestrial Hermit Crab Populations in the Maldives - Sebastian Steibl
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Terrestrial hermit crabs are among the most widespread beach-dwelling organisms with key ecological functions but receive only very limited research attention. Sebastian Steibl demonstrates how physical parameters shape their overall distribution, presents a possible mechanism for their speciation and coexistence and shows for the first time how different human activities can have a major impact on their populations. The author points out that terrestrial hermit crabs, due to their conspicuous behavior to utilize shells, are a good model to study mechanisms of competition and coexistence in natural populations. Furthermore, they are suitable indicator organisms to assess human impact, as they respond differently depending on the type of anthropogenic disturbance.

About the Author:

Sebastian Steibl is a PhD student at the Institute of Animal Ecology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. In his actual PhD research, he builds up on the presented work to investigate the architecture as well as functionality of small insular ecosystems and to analyze how different anthropogenic disturbances impact those ecosystem processes.

Sebastian Steibl is a PhD student at the Institute of Animal Ecology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. In his actual PhD research, he builds up on the presented work to investigate the architecture as well as functionality of small insular ecosystems and to analyze how different anthropogenic disturbances impact those ecosystem processes.

Shell Resource Partitioning as a Mechanism of Coexistence in Two Co-occurring Terrestrial Hermit Crab Species.- Daytime Activity and Habitat Preferences of Two Sympatric Hermit Crab Species (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobita).- Disentangling the Environmental Impact of Different Human Disturbances: a Case Study on Islands.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie BestMasters
Zusatzinfo XIII, 53 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort Wiesbaden
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 105 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Schlagworte Anthropogenic impact • Beach-dwelling organism • Coenobita perlatus • Coenobita rugosus • Coexistence • hermit crabs • Human disturbance • impact assessment • Island ecology • Maldives • Resource partitioning • Terrestrial hermit crab populations • urban ecology
ISBN-10 3-658-29540-6 / 3658295406
ISBN-13 978-3-658-29540-0 / 9783658295400
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