Direct and indirect effects of burrowing crab Chasmagnathus granulatus activities on erosion of southwest Atlantic Sarcocornia-dominated marshes

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2340-2349

  Escapa, Mauricio ^a,b,c   Minkoff, Darío R ^a   Perillo, Gerardo M E ^a,c,d   Iribarne, Oscar ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; CRAB; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARSH; PLANT; SHEAR STRENGTH; WATER CONTENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SARCOCORNIA; SARCOCORNIA PERENNIS;

EID: 36749048643     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2340     Document Type: Article

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