Local and geographic variation in grazing intensity by herbivorous crabs in SW Atlantic salt marshes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 349, Issue , 2007, Pages 235-243

  Alberti, Juan ^a,b   Escapa, Mauricio ^a,b,c   Daleo, Pedro ^a,b   Iribarne, Oscar ^a,b   Silliman, Brian ^d   Bertness, Mark ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

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

^c INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Argentina)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Chasmagnathus granulatus; Herbivory; Salt marshes; Spartina; SW

Indexed keywords

CRAB; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GRASS; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; SALTMARSH;

ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HYMENACHNE; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 36949038519     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07089     Document Type: Article

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