Spatio-temporal distribution patterns of the crab assemblage in the shallow subtidal of the north Chilean Pacific Coast

Crustaceana

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1161-1200

  Jesse, Sandra ^a   Stotz, Wolfgang ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRAB; HABITAT USE; NICHE PARTITIONING; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

CHILE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BRACHYURA; CALAPPIDAE; CANCRIDAE; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GAUDICHAUDIA; HALOPHILA; HEPATUS; POLYODON; PSEUDOSQUILLIDAE; PSEUDOSQUILLOPSIS; STOMATOPODA; XANTHIDAE;

EID: 0038034479     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854002321518135     Document Type: Article

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