Structural complexity and vertical zonation of intertidal crabs, with focus on habitat requirements of the invasive asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus (de Haan)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 203-217

  Lohrer, Andrew M ^a   Fukui, Yasuo ^b   Wada, Keiji ^c   Whitlatch, Robert B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Department Educational Foundations   (Japan)

^c NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acmaeopleura parvula (Grapsidae); Crabs; Gaetice depressus (Grapsidae); Habitat structural complexity; Hemigrapsus sanguineus (Grapsidae); Intertidal zonation; Leptodius exaratus (Xanthidae)

Indexed keywords

BIOMANIPULATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ZONATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

JAPAN;

DECAPODA; HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 0034651664     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(99)00139-2     Document Type: Article

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