Behavioural responses of the mangrove fiddler crabs (Uca annulipes and U. inversa) to urban sewage loadings: Results of a mesocosm approach

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1860-1867

  Bartolini, Fabrizio ^a   Penha Lopes, Gil ^b   Limbu, Samwel ^c   Paula, José ^b   Cannicci, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Behaviour; East Africa; Ecosystem engineer; Fiddler crab; Mangrove; Sewage

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; CONTROL-CELL; DOMESTIC SEWAGE; EAST AFRICA; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER; MESOCOSMS; TANZANIA;

BIOLOGICAL SEWAGE TREATMENT; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; PORPHYRINS; SEWAGE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHLOROPHYLL A; SEA WATER;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOINDICATOR; BIOTURBATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CRAB; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EUTROPHICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPERTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; MESOCOSM; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; URBAN POLLUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIOTURBATION; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; CRAB; DOMESTIC WASTE; EUTROPHICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MANGROVE; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; TANZANIA; TERRITORIALITY; UCA ANNULIPES; UCA INVERSA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; AVICENNIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; CHLOROPHYLLIDES; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA ANNULIPES; UCA THAYERI;

EID: 71549155595     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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