Camouflage and Individual Variation in Shore Crabs (Carcinus maenas) from Different Habitats (original) (raw)
Figure 3
Correlation plots of the six different metrics of appearance with increasing crab size.
All correlations were significant showing that crabs change in appearance as they grow larger, presumably through successive molts. For most variables the amount of spread in the data decreases with increasing crab size, showing that smaller crabs have high individual variation and larger crabs are more uniform.