Role of fiddler crabs of a subtropical intertidal flat on the fate of sedimentary fatty acids

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-201

  Meziane, T ^a   Sanabe, M C ^a   Tsuchiya, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Faeces; Fatty acid markers; Food pellets; Scopimera globosa; Subtropical tidal flat; Uca lactea; Uca vocans

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CRAB; FATTY ACID; FECAL PELLET; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CRAB; DIATOM; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FOOD; JAPAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT;

JAPAN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; SCOPIMERA; SCOPIMERA GLOBOSA; UCA; UCA LACTEA;

EID: 0037197779     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(02)00019-9     Document Type: Article

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