A Comparison of Brachyuran Crab Community Structure at Four Mangrove Locations under Different Management Systems along the Melaka Straits-Andaman Sea Coast of Malaysia and Thailand

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1461-1471

  Ashton, Elizabeth C ^a,c   Hogarth, Peter J ^b   Macintosh, Donald J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRAB; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ASIA; EURASIA; KEDAH; KLONG NGAO; KUALA SELANGOR NATURE PARK; MALAYSIA; MATANG MANGROVE FOREST RESERVE; MERBOK ESTUARY; PERAK; RANONG; SELANGOR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN REGION; THAILAND; WEST MALAYSIA;

BRACHYURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 0842287701     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803654     Document Type: Article

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