Arthropod acoustic communication is a primary focus at the Patek Lab. Here you can find our acoustically oriented research projects along with sounds and video of spiny lobsters (Palinuridae) and mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda).
Thomas Claverie, Ph.D.
Thomas Claverie, Ph.D.
Personal Website: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~claverie/
Publications
- Elastic energy storage in the mantis shrimp’s fast predatory strike
- Disentangling defense: the function of spiny lobster sounds.
- Modularity and scaling in fast movements: power amplification in mantis shrimp
- Rumbling in the benthos: acoustic ecology of the California mantis shrimp Hemisquilla californiensis
- Gearing for speed slows the predatory strike of a mantis shrimp
Other Information
- Other Profile Information
- Claverie, T. & Smith, I. P. (2010) Allometry and sexual dimorphism in the chela shape of the squat lobster, Munida rugosa. Aquatic Biology 8, 179-187.
Claverie, T. & Smith, I. P. (2009) Morphological maturity and allometric growth in the squat lobster Munida rugosa, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 89, 1189-1194
Claverie, T. & Kamenos, N. (2008) Spawning aggregations and mass movements in subtidal Onchidoris bilamellata (Mollusca; Opisthobranchia), J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 88, 157-159
Claverie, T. & Smith, I. P. (2007) Functional significance of an unusual chela dimorphism in a marine decapod: specialisation as a weapon?, Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 3033-3038
Claverie, T. & Smith, I. P. (2007) A comparison of the effect of three common tagging methods on the survival of the galatheid Munida rugosa (Fabricius, 1775), Fish. Res. 86, 285-288.
Bouma T.J., van Duren L.A., Temmerman S., Claverie T., Blanco-Garcia A., Ysebaert T., Herman P.M.J. (2007) Spatial flow and sedimentation patterns within patches of epibenthic structures: Combining field, flume and modelling experiments, Cont. Shelf Res. 27, 1020–1045.
