Paradoxical selective feeding on a low-nutrient diet: Why do mangrove crabs eat leaves?

Oecologia

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-7

  Skov, Martin W ^a   Hartnoll, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burrows; Carbon nitrogen ratio; Leaves; Nutrition; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CRAB; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEAF; MANGROVE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TANNIN;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEOSARMATIUM; NEOSARMATIUM MEINERTI; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SCYLLA; SESARMA; SESARMA GUTTATUM; SESARMIDAE;

EID: 0036941530     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-001-0847-7     Document Type: Article

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