Fiddler crab burrow usage by the Asian crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus, in a long island sound salt marsh

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 415-420

  Brousseau, Diane J ^a   Kriksciun, Kimberly ^a   Baglivo, Jenny A ^b  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; HEMIGRAPSUS; HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS; OCYPODIDAE; SPARTINA; UCA; UCA PUGNAX;

EID: 1642476725     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2003)010[0415:FCBUBT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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