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Tom M. Spight
Publications - 3
Citations - 197
Tom M. Spight is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Moisture. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 194 citations.
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Availability and use of shells by intertidal hermit crabs
TL;DR: During a six-year period, several thousand intertidal snails, Thais lamellosa and T. emarginata, were given individually numbered tags and times of death were noted, showing changes in the hermit crab population were highly correlated with shell availability.
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Hatching size and the distribution of nurse eggs among prosobranch embryos
TL;DR: Some embryos of Thais emarginata attain twice the shell length of others by the time of hatching, and these nurse-egg feeders reach variable hatching sizes because some embryos share their yo...
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The water economy of salamanders: exchange of water with the soil
TL;DR: The rate of water exchange between salamander and the soil was a function of the soil moisture tension and the rate of uptake from saturated soils was correlated with the body weight and the dehydration deficit of the salamanders.