Impact of the mangrove crabs Uca annulipes and Dotilla fenestrata on meiobenthos

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 225-231

  Ólafsson, Emil ^a   Ndaro, Simon G M ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Crabs; Dotilla; East Africa; Laboratory experiment; Mangroves; Meiofauna; Nematode assemblage; Uca

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ORGANISMS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MANGROVE CRAB; MANGROVE SWAMP; MEIOBENTHES; MEIOFAUNA;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MANNA; COPEPODA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DOTILLA; DOTILLA FENESTRATA; FENESTRIDA; NEMATODA; OCYPODIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SCYLLA; UCA; UCA ANNULIPES; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 0030665654     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps158225     Document Type: Article

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