Many species reproduce when conditions are most favorable for the survival of young. Numerous intertidal fish and invertebrates release eggs or larvae during semilunar, large amplitude, nocturnal tides when these early life stages are best able to escape predation by fish that feed near the shore during the day. Remarkably, some species, including the fiddler crabs Uca terpsichores and Uca deic...

Irrigation by benthic macrofauna has a major influence on the biogeochemistry and microbial community structure of sediments. Existing quantitative models of bioirrigation rely primarily on chemical, rather than ecological, information and the depth-dependence of bioirrigation intensity is either imposed or constrained through a data fitting procedure. In this study, stochastic simulations of 3...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.12.007 0003-3472/© 2014 The Authors. Published on behalf o ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-n Some social signals are sexually selected both by female mating preferences and by maleemale competition for mates. Studies of the behavioural mechanisms that mediate responses to these signals provide insight into how sexual selection operates...

Migratory shorebirds are notable consumers of benthic invertebrates on intertidal sediments. The distribution and abundance will strongly depend their prey landscape sediment features such as mud surface water content, topography, the presence ecosystem engineers. An understanding shorebird ecology thus requires knowledge various habitat types which may be distinguished in areas. Here, we combi...

Almost all known arthropod compound eyes exhibit regional variations of resolving power, absolute light, spectral and polarisation sensitivity which are likely to be matched to the probability of significant events and the availability of cues in the visual world. To understand the signal processing requirements that have led to the evolution of matched sensory and neural filters, we thus need ...