Short-circuit in the mangrove food chain

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 199, Issue , 2000, Pages 97-109

  Sheaves, Marcus ^b   Molony, Brett ^a  

^a W A Marine Research Laboratories   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Crab; Epinephelus; Estuary; Food web; Lutjanus; Mangroves; Sesarmid; Stable isotope; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; FOOD CHAIN; MANGROVE; PISCIVORY; PREDATION; SOUTH AMERICA;

FOOD CHAIN; MANGROVE; PREDATION;

AFRICA; INDO-WEST PACIFIC;

BRACHYURAN; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EPINEPHELUS; EPINEPHELUS COIOIDES; EPINEPHELUS MALABARICUS; LUTJANUS; LUTJANUS ARGENTIMACULATUS; PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SESARMIDAE;

EID: 0034717649     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps199097     Document Type: Article

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