Tests for artefacts in some methods used to study herbivory and predation in mangrove forests

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 37-44

  McGuinness, K A ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artefact; Bias; Caging; Grapsid crabs; Herbivory; Mangroves; Predation; Tethering

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORES; HERBIVORY; MANGROVE SWAMP; MANGROVE SWAMPS; PREDATION; SAMPLING;

AUSTRALIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 0030755599     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps153037     Document Type: Article

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