The intertidal burrowing crab Neohelice (=Chasmagnathus) granulata positively affects foraging of rodents in south western Atlantic salt marshes

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 920-930

  Canepuccia, Alejandro D ^a   Fanjul, Maria S ^a   Fanjul, Eugenia ^a   Botto, Florencia ^a   Iribarne, Oscar O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Coastal SW Atlantic; Granivory; Habitat use; Neohelice (Chasmagnathus) granulata; Rodent; Salt marshes; Spartina densiflora

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRANIVORY; GRASS; HABITAT USE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RODENT; SALTMARSH; SEED PRODUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

AKODON AZARAE; CHASMAGNATHUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OLIGORYZOMYS FLAVESCENS; ORYZOMYS; RODENTIA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 52949083535     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-008-9076-1     Document Type: Article

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