Spatial distribution of fiddler crabs (genus Uca) in a tropical mangrove of northeast Brazil

Scientia Marina

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 759-766

  Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda ^a,b   Dias, Carolina Braga ^a,c   Santana, Givanildo Ximenes ^a   Matthews Cascon, Helena ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Fiddler crab; Northeast Brazil; Second maxiliped analysis; Spatial distribution; Tropical mangrove

Indexed keywords

CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MANGROVE; ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA; UCA LEPTODACTYLA; UCA MARACOANI; UCA RAPAX; UCA THAYERI;

EID: 33846010154     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2006.70n4759     Document Type: Article

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