I am a MS student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and I work with ovigerous fiddler crabs and the potential temperature stresses these crabs or their embryos may be exposed to in the field. An experiment has been set up to determine what temperatures these fiddler crabs are exposed to inside of their burrows while they allow incubation of their embryos.
Does anybody know if there is any correlation between the tide and the temperature fluctuations that fiddler crabs experience inside of burrows? especially while they are incubating eggs?