Novel nursery habitat of hydrothermal vent crabs

Crustaceana

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-380

  Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^a   Dahms, Hans Uwe ^a   Alekseev, Victor ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PAPANIN INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; DEEP SEA; ECOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; NURSERY GROUND; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

EAST CHINA SEA; OKINAWA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BRACHYURA; CYANAGRAEA PRAEDATOR; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); XENOGRAPSUS TESTUDINATUS;

EID: 39049111867     PISSN: 0011216X     EISSN: 15685403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156854008783564127     Document Type: Article

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