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Guillermina Alcaraz

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

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238

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Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Adaptive Divergence in Response to Shared Environmental Pressures: Examining Gastropod Shell Exploitation by Intertidal Hermit Crabs

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Jan 2025
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), affiliation not provided to SSRN and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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Commensalism, Geometric morphometry, Hydrodynamics, Phenotypic variation, Shape, Waves

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Differences in the Endogenous Rhythm of Locomotion of Two Hermit Crab Species Helps Facilitate Their Coexistance

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 May 2025
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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Crustaceans, endogenous rhythm, exploration, dominant, subordinate, sunset, sunrise, temporal partitioning, aquatic, fitness

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Impact on Energy Metabolism, Biochemical, and Behavioral of a Sentinel Mangrove Crab by Settleable Atmospheric Particulate Matter from Steel Industries

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 May 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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energy budget, oxidative stress, metabolic rate, righting time, Minuca rapax

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Thermal Threshold and Interspecific Competition Explain Intertidal Hermit Crab Assemblages

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 24 Jul 2023
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), affiliation not provided to SSRN and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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evaporative cooling, habitat exclusion, interspecific competition, thermoregulation, tolerance

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Why Not Be Larger in Wave Action Sites? Energetic Constraints Due to Body Size

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Mar 2025
Cesar Rubio-Lopez and Guillermina Alcaraz
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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mechanical ecology, hydrodynamics, waves, energy budget, assimilation, ingestion, intertidal

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Constitutive and plastic components of activity rhythms under interspecific competition in hermit crabs

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Sep 2025
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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Agonistic interactions, circadian rhythm, competition, constitutive phase, crustaceans, plastic rhythms, intertidal, subordinate strategies, tidepools

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Natural variability does not confer protection: warming and acidification impair chemical cue detection in tropical intertidal hermit crabs

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Jun 2026
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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anomura, chemoreception, behavior, exploitation, tropical coast, marine invertebrates, cue orientation, behavioral ecology, intertidal ecology, Sensory Ecology

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In hermit crabs, niche conservatism predominates but divergence occurs along key environmental axes

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Apr 2026
Lili Pelayo-González and Guillermina Alcaraz
affiliation not provided to SSRN and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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environmental filtering, Ecological niche, Macroecology, Bathymetric, Temperature, Deep-sea, Paguroidea