We considered a series of conservation‐related research projects on the island of Pemba,
Tanzania, to reflect on the broad significance of Beier et al.'s recommendations for linking …

Coconut crabs Birgus latro are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN due to habitat conversion
and fragmentation as well as direct exploitation for human consumption. Here, we document …

Widely dispersed fragmented populations are a challenge to monitor because
subpopulation sizes may be very small, difficult to access and time consuming to sample …

The coconut crab, Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767), the largest land arthropod in the world, is
widely distributed on islands and atolls across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but there is …

Species experience a variety of environmental and anthropogenic conditions across their
ranges leading to spatial variation in population dynamics. Understanding population …

Coconut (or robber) crabs (Birgus latro) are found throughout the Indo-Pacific, including as
far east as the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia, though the eastern edge of their range is …

The coconut or robber crab, Birgus latro (L., 1767), is a terrestrial hermit crab (Anomura:
Coenobitidae) native throughout the islands in the western Pacific and Indian Oceans (K …