Spatial structure of a leaf-removing crab population in a mangrove of North-Brazil

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-106

  Piou, Cyril ^a,b   Berger, Uta ^a,b   Feller, Ilka C ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat preference; Intraspecific competition; Mangrove ecology; Multiple scales; Population structure; Spatial statistics; Ucides cordatus

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CRAB; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; HABITAT SELECTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MANGROVE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; ROOT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LAGUNCULARIA RACEMOSA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; UCIDES CORDATUS;

EID: 61449119052     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-008-9089-3     Document Type: Article

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