Threshold, optimum and critical geoenvironmental conditions for burrowing activity of sand bubbler crab, Scopimera globosa

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 354, Issue , 2008, Pages 191-199

  Sassa, Shinji ^a   Watabe, Yoichi ^a  

^a PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burrowing; Groundwater; Intertidal flat; Laboratory experiments; Ocypodidae; Scopimera globosa; Suction; Tokyo Bay

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; COHESION; CRAB; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYSICS; POREWATER; STIFFNESS; SUCTION; THRESHOLD; TIDAL FLAT; WATER LEVEL; WAVE RUNUP;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO BAY;

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; SCOPIMERA GLOBOSA;

EID: 40149105700     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07236     Document Type: Article

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