Size-dependent temperature and desiccation constraints on performance capacity: Implications for sexual selection in a fiddler crab

Reproductively active males of the sand fiddler crab Uca pugilator are routinely exposed to high body temperatures and desiccation while defending breeding-burrows from other males or displaying to attract females. Such males are generally larger than individuals in other parts of the marsh, in part...

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