The rare and difficult-to-sample driftwood talitrids, also called driftwood hoppers, have been reviewed. Scientists noq link these crustaceans’ trend to small size (dwarfism) to the poor quality of driftwood as food, and/or the size of empty burrows they occupy. Behavioral experiments suggest that the smallest talitrids can occupy most available burrows, whereas the largest ones could complete their life cycle in 58% of them.
