Behavioral Adaptation to Intertidal Life

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Clock-Controlled Behaviour in Intertidal Animals....Pages 1-14
Migration or Shelter? Behavioural Options for Deposit Feeding Crabs on Tropical Sandy Shores....Pages 15-26
Activity Rhythms in Siphonaria thersites ....Pages 27-44
The Timing of Reproduction to Distinct Spring Tide Situations in the Intertidal Insect Clunio ....Pages 45-54
Patterns of Movement in Intertidal Fishes....Pages 55-63
Predation of Intertidal Fauna by Shorebirds in Relation to Time of the Day, Tide and Year....Pages 65-78
Zonal Recovering in Equatorial Sandhoppers: Interaction Between Magnetic and Solar Orientation....Pages 79-92
Aspects of Direction Finding Inheritance in Natural Populations of Littoral Sandhoppers ( Talitrus saltator )....Pages 93-103
Learning in Zonal Orientation of Sandhoppers....Pages 105-118
Foraging Excursion and Homing in the Tropical Crab Eriphia smithi ....Pages 119-133
When Limiting Factors aren’t: Lessons from Land Crabs....Pages 135-151
Barnacle Larval Settlement: the Perception of Cues at Different Spatial Scales....Pages 153-172
Analysis of Movement Patterns and Orientation Mechanisms in Intertidal Chitons and Gastropods....Pages 173-184
Homing Mechanisms of Intertidal Chitons: Field Evidence and the Hypothesis of Trail-Polymorphism....Pages 185-195
Interindividual Variation in Foraging Behaviour within a Temperate and a Tropical Species of Carnivorous Gastropods....Pages 197-212
Thermal Stress in a High Shore Intertidal Environment: Morphological and Behavioural Adaptations of the Gastropod Littorina africana ....Pages 213-224
Interspecific Behaviour and its Reciprocal Interaction with Evolution, Population Dynamics and Community Structure....Pages 225-254
Influence of the Presence of Congeneric Species on the Behavioural Presences of Hydrobia Species....Pages 255-263
Optimal Foraging in the Intertidal Environment: Evidence and Constraints....Pages 265-282
Sexual Difference in Resource Use in Hermit Crabs; Consequences and Causes....Pages 283-296
Stabilizing Processes in Bird-Prey Interactions on Rocky Shores....Pages 297-315
Behavioural Plasticity as an Adaptation to a Variable Environment....Pages 317-332
Design and Analysis of Field Experiments on Competitive Interactions Affecting Behaviour of Intertidal Animals....Pages 333-357
Intraspecific Aggression in Actinia equina : Behavioural Plasticity in Relation to Over-Winter Survivorship of Adult Anemones....Pages 359-370
Interspecific Interactions among Selected Intertidal Stomatopods....Pages 371-385
Interpreting Differences in the Reproductive Behaviour of Fiddler Crabs (Genus Uca )....Pages 387-407
Some Aspect of Agonistic Communication in Intertidal Hermit Crabs....Pages 409-419
Intraspecific Variations in Reproductive Tactics in Males of The Rocky Intertidal Fish Blennius sanguinolentus in the Azores....Pages 421-447
Behavioural Adaptations of Sandy Beach Organisms: an Ecological Perspective....Pages 449-475
Eco-Ethology of Mangroves....Pages 477-489
Physical Processes of the Coastal Sea....Pages 491-508
Back Matter....Pages 509-524