Density and population structure of the red land crab Gecarcinus lateralis in a tropical semi-deciduous forest in Veracruz, Mexico

Interciencia

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 323-327+363

  Capistrán Barradas, Ascención ^a   Defeo, Omar ^b   Moreno Casasola, Patricia ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA APLICADA   (Mexico)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Density; Floor Topography; Forest Age; Gecarcinus lateralis; Population Structure

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; SOILS;

BIOCHEMICAL ADAPTATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE; GECARCINUS LATERALIS;

EID: 0242364323     PISSN: 03781844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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