Guard crabs alleviate deleterious effects of vermetid snails on a branching coral

Coral Reefs

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1019-1022

  Stier, A C ^a   McKeon, C S ^a,b   Osenberg, C W ^a   Shima, J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dendropoma maximum; Pocillopora; Symbiosis; Trapezia

Indexed keywords

CORAL; CORAL REEF; CRAB; ECHINODERM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MUTUALISM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SEDIMENTATION; SNAIL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DENDROPOMA MAXIMUM; EUPHORBIA MILII VAR. SPLENDENS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; KOEBERLINIA SPINOSA; PISCES; POCILLOPORA; SCLERACTINIA; TRAPEZIA; VERMETIDAE;

EID: 78649321068     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-010-0663-9     Document Type: Article

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