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Owner Advantage in the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi. Fight data between burrow owners and natural floaters

Resource owners generally win contests against intruders, a phenomenon referred to as the 'Owner Advantage' (OA). Uca mjoebergi is a typical fiddler crab that is highly sociable, territorial and lives in mixed sex colonies on intertidal mudflats. Burrows are used in territory defence, for mating, and as refuge from predators and environmental stresses. Fights are common between owners and floating males who battle for ownership of the territory and burrow.

Experiments were conducted from 28th Sept - 30 Dec 2006 at the lower reaches of Ludmilla Creek within East Point Reserve, 5km North of Darwin, NT. This experiment found that when attacked by naturally occurring floaters, owners were most likely to win fights. Owners won 91.9% of fights against naturally occurring floaters. There is therefore a strong ownership advantage in this species.

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Title Owner Advantage in the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi. Fight data between burrow owners and natural floaters
Type Dataset
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Data Status inactive
Update Frequency never
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/8a08d005-cf75-424d-8e01-222538f03e27
Date Published 2017-06-24
Date Updated 2023-08-11
Contact Point
School of Biological Sciences (SBS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)
sfayed@utas.edu.au
Temporal Coverage 2017-06-24 20:46:31
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[130.5, -13.0], [131.0, -13.0], [131.0, -12.0], [130.5, -12.0], [130.5, -13.0]]]}
Jurisdiction Commonwealth of Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au
Publisher/Agency School of Biological Sciences (SBS), University of Tasmania (UTAS)