Effects of the SW Atlantic burrowing crab Chasmagnathus granulata on a Spartina salt marsh

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 178, Issue , 1999, Pages 79-88

  Bortolus, Alejandro ^a   Iribarne, Oscar ^b  

^a Becario CIC   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Crabs; Fire; Herbivory; Marsh; Spartina

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ORGANISM; CRUSTACEAN; HERBIVORY; SOIL PROFILE;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 0033577245     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps178079     Document Type: Article

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