Associations of shrimp with gobies are widespread across the tropics. Most of the work on these goby-shrimp relationships has been done in the Red Sea/Indian Ocean Luther 1958; Magnus 1967; Karplus 1981



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Sample ID #

Date of collection

Months after exclosure was constructed

0

February 23-27

0

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February 28

Exclosure Constructed

2

April 26-30

2

3

May 21-25

3

4

June 21-26

4

5

August 11-13

5.5

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August 15th

Exclosure taken down

6

September 13-15

6.5

7

October 5-6

7


Table 1. Dates of data collection, corresponding sample ID numbers, and timing relative to exclosure events.


Time

Burrow maintenance

Foraging

Static Outside

Total time outside

600

13.1 + 10.2

27.0 + 8.4

15.6 + 5.6

55.1 + 13.5

900

4.8 + 13.4

17.2 + 3.5

17.2 + 4.6

38.9 + 16.3

1200

44.7 + 12.8

20.4 + 10.1

18.9 + 7.2

83.1 + 21.3

1500

74.9 + 11.1

45.7 + 12.2

58.4 + 15.9

178.6 + 21.3

1800

108.9 + 16.6

56.4 + 10.3

26.0 + 21.9

191.3 + 26.2


Table 2. Duration of behaviors in seconds (mean + SD) recorded for shrimp during five 1000-sec sampling periods in daylight.



Status of the goby

Bout’ length (Time a shrimp spent out of the burrow – in seconds)

Percent of time shrimp were out of the burrow

Percent of shrimp emergences when ‘burrow maintenance’ occurred

Present (N=7)

14.0+6.4

53.6+21.8

52.7+25.1

Absent (N=7)

3.1+0.2

6.9+3.4

98.7+2.8


Table 3. Means (+ S.D.) from seven shrimp burrows with associated goby and seven burrows without: ‘bout’ length; percent of total time that shrimp were out of the burrow; percent of shrimp emergences that involved burrow maintenance.
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Source

df

SS

MS

F

P

Treatment

2

14.99

7.49

1.07

0.345

Month

5

338.74

84.69

12.08

< 0.001

Interaction

8

28.01

3.50

0.500

0.856

Error

255

1788.06

7.01







Total

269

2169.8











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