Mangrove leaves are not an important source of dietary carbon and nitrogen for crabs in temperate Australian Mangroves

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 375-380

  Mazumder, Debashish ^a   Saintilan, Neil ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Department of Environment Climate Change   (Australia)

Author keywords

Estuarine; Food habits; Isotope; Sesamaridae; Trophic

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CRAB; EPIPHYTE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FOOD INTAKE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAF; MANGROVE; NITROGEN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HELOGRAPSUS HASWELLIANUS; PARAGRAPSUS LAEVIS; PARASESARMA ERYTHRODACTYLA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SESARMIDAE;

EID: 77956480027     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0021-2     Document Type: Article

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