Does the wood-borer Sphaeroma terebrans (Crustacea) shape the distribution of the mangrove Rhizophora mucronata?

Ambio

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 574-579

  Svavarsson, Jörundur ^a   Osore, Melckzedeck K W ^b,c   Ólafsson, Emil ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c KENYA MARINE AND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANGROVE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROOT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

KENYA; TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; HALOPHILA; ISOPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA; SPHAEROMA; SPHAEROMA TEREBRANS;

EID: 0036990850     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-31.7.574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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31. We wish to thank Maurice Kodjo and George Onduso for their assistance in the field and in analyzing roots. We thank the directors of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Mombasa, Kenya and the Institute of Marine Research, Zanzibar for their hospitality. We thank Martin Thiel for his constructive comments and unpublished information. Sida (grant no. SWE-1997-163) and UNESCO supported this study.