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- Title
AGGREGATION BY THE MARINE WOOD-BORING ISOPOD, LIMNORIA.
- Authors
Menzies, Robert J.; Widrig, T. M.
- Abstract
The distribution of burrows on wood as infestation proceeds can be summarized as follows: 1. The first few animals that arrive on the wood burrow nearly at random, having generally not found evidence of other animals within their scouting radius. 2. As infestation proceeds, the migrants are more apt to find other burrows or burrow evidence, and the distribution of the infestation becomes markedly aggregated. 3. Finally, as more and more animals arrive in the vicinity, the area of the clumps of infestation gets larger, and soon the burrows become nearly uniformly placed across the surface of the block. 4. In the formation of aggregations, it appears that the upper limits of the scouting range of one organism is between four and eight square inches.
- Subjects
ISOPODA; LIMNORIA; ANIMAL burrowing; MALACOSTRACA; LIMNORIIDAE; HYDRAULIC engineering
- Publication
Oikos, 1955, Vol 6, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3564851