The swimming crab Charybdis smithii: Distribution, biology and trophic role in the pelagic ecosystem of the western Indian Ocean

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1089-1107

  Romanov, Evgeny ^a   Potier, Michel ^a   Zamorov, Veniamin ^b   Ménard, Frédéric ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CRAB; DISPERSION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OUTBURST; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DECLINE; SWIMMING; TRAWLING; TROPHIC LEVEL;

INDIAN OCEAN;

CHARYBDIS SMITHII; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 64249143107     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1151-z     Document Type: Article

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