Horseshoe Crab

Book Chapters and Reviews

These manuscripts provide broader overviews of some of the behaviors that we study.

Papers

2015, Cheng, H, Chabot CC, and Watson, WH. The Life History Cycle of Limulus polyphemus in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire U.S.A. IN: "Changing global perspectives on biology, conservation, and management of horseshoe crabs" RH Carmichael, ML Botton, PKS Shin, and SG Cheung (Eds).

2014, Chabot, CC and WH Watson III. Daily and tidal rhythms in intertidal marine animals. Pp. 41-63. IN: Annual, Lunar and Tidal Clocks: Patterns and Mechanisms of Nature’s Enigmatic Rhythms. H. Numata and B. Helm (Eds).

2010, Chabot, C.C. and W.H. Watson. Horseshoe crab behavior: patterns and processes. Current Zoology 56: i-iv. PDF

2010, C.C. Chabot and W.H. Watson. Circatidal rhythms of locomotion in the American horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus: Underlying mechanisms and cues that influence them. Current Zoology 56: 499-517. PDF

2009 Watson, W.H., S.Y. Schaller, and C.C. Chabot. The Relationship Between Small- and Large-scale Movements of Horseshoe Crabs in the Great Bay Estuary and Limulus Behavior in the Laboratory. In: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution of the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus. D. Smith and J. Tanecredi (Eds). Klewer Academic/Plenum Press, New York. PDF