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'''Clumping''' is a behavior in an [[organism]], usually [[Sessility (motility)|sessile]], in which individuals of a particular species group close to one another for beneficial purposes. Clumping can be caused by the abiotic enviornment surrounding an organism. Barnacles, for example, group together on rocks that are exposed for the least amount of time during the low tide. <ref>{{cite book|last=Karleskint|first=George|title=Introduction to Marine Biology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBXTCQAAQBAJ&dq=clumping+of+sessile+organisms&source=gbs_navlinks_s|date=26 April 2012|publisher=Cengage Learning}}</ref> |
'''Clumping''' is a behavior in an [[organism]], usually [[Sessility (motility)|sessile]], in which individuals of a particular species group close to one another for beneficial purposes. Clumping can be caused by the abiotic enviornment surrounding an organism. Barnacles, for example, group together on rocks that are exposed for the least amount of time during the low tide. <ref>{{cite book|last=Karleskint|first=George|title=Introduction to Marine Biology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBXTCQAAQBAJ&dq=clumping+of+sessile+organisms&source=gbs_navlinks_s|date=26 April 2012|page=22|publisher=Cengage Learning}}</ref> Usually, clumping in sessile animals starts when one organism binds to a hard substrate, such as rock, and other members of the same species attach themselves afterwards.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boucot|first=A.J|title=Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|page=128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wFPgBAAAQBAJ&dq=clumping+of+sessile+organisms&source=gbs_navlinks_s}}</ref> |
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Clumping is a behavior in an organism, usually sessile, in which individuals of a particular species group close to one another for beneficial purposes. Clumping can be caused by the abiotic enviornment surrounding an organism. Barnacles, for example, group together on rocks that are exposed for the least amount of time during the low tide. [1] Usually, clumping in sessile animals starts when one organism binds to a hard substrate, such as rock, and other members of the same species attach themselves afterwards.[2]
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