Notes on the structure and the use of neosarmatium meinerti and cardisoma carnifex burrows in a kenyan mangrove swamp (decapoda brachyura)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-113

  Berti, R ^a   Cannicci, S ^a   Fabbroni, S ^a   Innocenti, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acentrogobius simplex; Burrow morphology; Cardisoma carnifex; Mangroves; Neosarmatium meinerti

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CRAB; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; MANGROVE; REFUGE; SEA LEVEL; SURVIVAL; SWAMP;

ACENTROGOBIUS; BRACHYURA; CARDISOMA CARNIFEX; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); NEOSARMATIUM MEINERTI; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 49049101495     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2008.9522531     Document Type: Article

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