Mark Laidre

Selected Publications

• Doherty, C.T.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2024). Experimentally seeded social cues in the wild: costs to bearers and potential benefits to receivers. Behavioral Ecology 35: arad105.

  Steele, E.P. & Laidre, M.E. (2024). Seeing across variable ecological and social environments: comparative eye morphology of marine and terrestrial hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Paguridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 44: ruae025.

  Parella, S.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2024). Crab comics: another tough day on the beach. ISBE (International Society for Behavioral Ecology) Newsletter 36: 13.

  Steele, E.P. & Laidre, M.E. (2023). Group orientation and social order versus disorder: perspective of outsiders toward experimental chains of social hermit crabs. Ethology 129: 344-355.

  Doherty, C.T.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2023). Doors to the homes: signal potential of red coloration of claws in social hermit crabs. Integrative Organismal Biology 5: obad018.

  Steele, E.P. & Laidre, M.E. (2023). Wild social behavior differs following experimental loss of vision in social hermit crabs. The Science of Nature 110: 20.

  Doherty, C.T.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2022). Individualism versus collective movement during travel. Scientific Reports 12: 7508.

  Laidre, M.E. (2022). Unearthing a hidden world of underground architecture. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: P389-391.

  Smith, S.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2022). Crab comics: a scientifically-informed cartoon series. ISBE (International Society for Behavioral Ecology) Newsletter 34: 12.

  Laidre, M.E. (2021). The architecture of cooperation among non-kin: coalitions to move up in nature's housing market. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 766342.

  Laidre, M.E. (2021). Animal architecture. Current Biology 31: R1458-R1464.

  Laidre, M.E. (2021). Social conquest of land: sea-to-land changes in shell architecture and body morphology, with consequences for social evolution. Arthropod Structure & Development 63: 101064.

  Laidre, M.E. (2021). Review of 'Social Butterflies' (Monographs in Population Biology, Volume 65, Princeton University Press) by Henry S. Horn. The Quarterly Review of Biology 96: 309-310.

  Laidre, M.E. (2021). Henry Horn (1941 - 2019) and his final book 'Social Butterflies' (2021). ISBE (International Society for Behavioral Ecology) Newsletter 33: 14-15.

  Doherty, C.T.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2020). Evolutionary loss of threat display in more social species: phylogenetic comparisons, natural interactions in the wild, and experiments with models. Behaviour 157: 1025-1058.

  Krieger, J., M.K. Hörnig, & Laidre, M.E. (2020). Shells as 'extended architecture': to escape isolation, social hermit crabs choose shells with the right external architecture. Animal Cognition 23: 1177-1187.

  Laidre, M.E. (2020). Biodiversity Action Plan for the coconut crab (Birgus latro) on Chagos Archipelago. Peer-reviewed 10-yr plan commissioned by the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Administration, pp. 1-22. Edited by Prof John Turner and Dr. Ronan Roche. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, King Charles Street, London, UK.

  Laidre, M.E. (2019). Architectural modification of shells by terrestrial hermit crabs alters social dynamics in later generations. Ecology 100: e02767.

  Laidre, M.E. (2019). Life, in a nutshell. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17: 202.

  Laidre, M.E. (2019). Private parts for private property: evolution of penis size with more valuable, easily stolen shells. Royal Society Open Science 6: 181760.

  Valdes, L. & Laidre, M.E. (2019). Scent of death: evolution from sea to land of an extreme collective attraction to conspecific death. Ecology and Evolution 9: 2171-2179.

  Steele, E.P. & Laidre, M.E. (2019). Leaf me alone: visual constraints on the ecology of social group formation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 53.

  Roberts, L. & Laidre, M.E. (2019). Get off my back: vibrational assessment of homeowner strength. Biology Letters 15: 20180819.

  Roberts L. & Laidre, M.E. (2019). Finding a home in the noise: cross-modal impact of anthropogenic vibration on animal search behaviour. Biology Open 8: bio041988.

  Valdes, L. & Laidre, M.E. (2018). Resolving spatio-temporal uncertainty in rare resource acquisition: smell the shell. Evolutionary Ecology 32: 247-263.

  Laidre, M.E. (2018). Coconut crabs. Current Biology 28: R58-R60.

  Laidre, M.E. (2018). Evolutionary ecology of burrow construction and social life. Chapter 11 In: Life Histories (edited by G.A. Wellborn and M. Thiel), pp 279-301. Oxford University Press.

  Laidre, M.E. (2018). Social cognition in the wild: from lab to field in hermit crabs. A brief commentary In: Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition: A Comparative Guide (edited by N. Bueno-Guerra and F. Amici), pp 237-239. Cambridge University Press.

  Bates, K.M. & Laidre, M.E. (2018). When to socialize: perception of time-sensitive social structures among social hermit crabs. Animal Behaviour 138: 19-27.

  Valdes, L. & Laidre, M.E. (2018). Shoals: island where Dartmouth can study marine life. Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (DUJS) 20: 30-32.

  Laidre, M.E. (2018). Review of 'Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals' by Ashley Ward and Mike Webster. Animal Behaviour 142: 181-182.

  Laidre, M.E. (2017). Ruler of the atoll: the world's largest land invertebrate. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15: 527-528.

  Laidre, M.E. (2017). Coconut crabs: from behaviour to conservation. Chagos News 51: 4-7.

  Laidre, M.E. (2017). Review of 'Noise Matters: The Evolution of Communication' (Harvard University Press) by R. Haven Wiley. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 134: 479-480.

  Greggor, A.L. & Laidre, M.E. (2016). Food fights: aggregations of marine hermit crabs (Pagurus samuelis) compete equally for food- and shell-related carrion. Bulletin of Marine Science 92: 293-303.

  Laidre, M.E. & Greggor, A.L. (2015). Swarms of swift scavengers: ecological role of marine intertidal hermit crabs in California. Marine Biology 162: 969-977.

  Laidre, M.E. & Kraft, T.S. (2015). Review of 'Social Learning: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Methods, and Models' (Princeton University Press) by William Hoppitt and Kevin Laland. International Journal of Primatology 36:1060-1064.

  Laidre, M.E. & Trinh, R. (2014). Unlike terrestrial hermit crabs, marine hermit crabs do not prefer shells previously used by conspecifics. Crustaceana 87: 856-865.

  Laidre, M.E. (2014). The social lives of hermits. Natural History 122: 24-29.