Diurnal observations of sheltering behaviour in the coral reef sea cucumber Holothuria whitmaei

Management of commercial sea cucumber stocks relies, in part, on estimates of population densities which, in-turn, depend on knowledge of habitat preferences, and of the influence of biological cues on sheltering and/or aggregation behaviour. Here, we document a diurnal shift in the sheltering behav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shiell, Glenn, Knott, B.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10116