How to increase juvenile shrimps in mangrove waters?

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 179-188

  Rajendran, N ^a   Kathiresan, K ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Avicennia; Decomposition; Mangroves; Microbes; Rhizophora; Shrimps

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; JUVENILE; MANGROVE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; PICHAVARAM; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

AVICENNIA; AZOTOBACTER; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FENNEROPENAEUS INDICUS; HALOPHILA; METAPENAEUS; METAPENAEUS BREVICORNIS; METAPENAEUS MONOCEROS; PENAEIDAE; PENAEUS; RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 3142742460     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WETL.0000034070.79518.b6     Document Type: Article

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