Pedacitos de "The Last Campfire" en Switch. El juego se siente como un abracito para personas con ansiedad ❤️‍🩹🫂.

Using the Sebens model we predicted the energetic optimum (EOS) and maximum (EMS) sizes of hermit crabs. We found that in a relatively strong wave regime, hermit crabs have an EOS at a medium size and a EMS that is far greater than the sizes we observed in the intertidal.

Larger individuals faced higher metabolic costs to stay attached to the substrate and the effect was greater with stronger waves. Although hermit crabs of both treatments assimilated the same amount of energy.

Next, we exposed hermit crabs of all sizes in the lab to two wave regimes (low and high) and measured energy budget components: assimilated energy, maintenance metabolic rate and maximum metabolic rate in a bidirectional water flow chamber.

First, we measured the hermit crab body size distribution along the intertidal gradient depending on water velocity. We found that all the sizes that we collected were distributed "evenly" along the intertidal, but sizes were far smaller than the ones reported for subtidal populations.

In this study we explored the effect of waves on the energetic costs that hermit crabs must incur to live in the rocky intertidal. We also calculated the optimum and maximum sizes that hermit crabs could attain when exposed to particular wave regimes.

Happy to share: "Why not be larger in wave action sites? Energetic constraints due to body size in hermit crabs", my master's degree research paper! Now available at: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma.... Here is the graphical abstract and a short summary in the next posts!

Llené este template de mi Pokémon favorito de cada tipo 🌟

Quería hacer una publicación en IG resumiendo la maestría y ay no, he visto demasiadas fotos de nuevo... (Ejemplo no representativo). Como me gustaría disfrutar tanto las cosas como solía hacerlo antes...

Mejoró la experiencia después de perder 20+ veces con este camarón mantis.

Comencé a jugar Another Crab's Treasure en Switch ahora que estaba en descuento y wow, que maravilla. Además me encantan las referencias biológicas.

Este año casi no jugué nada :(((. Definitivamente 2025 tiene que ser mejor.

Ahora si me merezco estar en el 3% de aprendizaje de japonés ✨️.

Unsolicited duck pic from Okinawa, Japan 🦆