The keystone role of leaf-removing crabs in mangrove forests of North Brazil

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 243-255

  Schories, Dirk ^a   Barletta Bergan, Audrey ^b   Barletta, Mario ^c   Krumme, Uwe ^b   Mehlig, Ulf ^b   Rademaker, Verena ^b  

^a Thetis IBN   (Germany)

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

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; Decomposition; Tidal export; Ucides cordatus

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CRAB; DECOMPOSITION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LEAF LITTER; MANGROVE; PROPAGULE; TIDAL CYCLE;

BRAGANCA PENINSULA; BRAZIL; PARA STATE;

ANIMALIA; AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA TAXON); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HALOPHILA; OCYPODIDAE; RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; UCIDES; UCIDES CORDATUS;

EID: 0041353731     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025011431984     Document Type: Article

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