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Testing the resource economic monopolization hypothesis and its consequences for the mating system of Alpheus estuariensis (Decapoda, Caridea, Alpheidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

Danillo Barroso Open the ORCID record for Danillo Barroso [Opens in a new window] ,
Douglas Fernandes Rodrigues Alves  and
Gustavo L. Hirose
Danillo Barroso*
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon. s/n°. Rosa Elze. 49100-000. São Cristóvão SE, Brazil
Douglas Fernandes Rodrigues Alves
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon. s/n°. Rosa Elze. 49100-000. São Cristóvão SE, Brazil NEBECC: Group of Studies on Crustacean Biology, Ecology and Culture, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Distrito de Rubião Júnior, s/n, CEP: 18618-970, Botucatu, SP, Brasil
Gustavo L. Hirose
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon. s/n°. Rosa Elze. 49100-000. São Cristóvão SE, Brazil NEBECC: Group of Studies on Crustacean Biology, Ecology and Culture, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Distrito de Rubião Júnior, s/n, CEP: 18618-970, Botucatu, SP, Brasil
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Correspondence should be addressed to: D. Barroso, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon. s/n°. Rosa Elze. 49100-000. São Cristóvão SE, Brazil email: danillo.bio2013@gmail.com
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Abstract

The aim of the present study is to test the resource economic monopolization hypothesis and the hypothesis of monogamy using the shrimp Alpheus estuariensis as a model. The shrimps were collected in two areas in the Vaza-Barriz estuary, north-east Brazil, from August to November 2016. The average abundance of refuges was obtained through 30 random replicates. The shrimp presented a random distribution in both areas. Males and females found together showed a weak relation between their sizes, with males being larger than females. In addition, the cheliped of males grows proportionally more than that of females. The great abundance of refuges present in the environment, added to the aforementioned results, do not support the idea of refuge-guarding behaviour or monogamy. These results, which are in disagreement with those already found for some shrimps of the same family, genus, and even species, reinforce the idea that Alpheidae can be used as a model in the study of how environmental conditions are capable of shaping the social behaviour of a species.

Keywords

Population distributionsnapping-shrimprefugemonopolizationguarding behaviour
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , May 2019 , pp. 639 - 647
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2018 

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