The effect of sewage discharge on the ecosystem engineering activities of two East African fiddler crab species: Consequences for mangrove ecosystem functioning

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-61

  Bartolini, Fabrizio ^a   Cimò, Filippo ^a   Fusi, Marco ^a   Dahdouh Guebas, Farid ^b,c   Lopes, Gil Penha ^d   Cannicci, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; East Africa; Ecosystem engineering; Mangrove; Sewage; Uca spp

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; EAST AFRICA; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; MANGROVE; UCA SPP;

IGNEOUS ROCKS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION DETECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOTURBATION; BURROWING; CRAB; DISCHARGE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MANGROVE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEWAGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; BURROWING SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; FORAGING; KENYA; MANGROVE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER;

ANIMALS; AVICENNIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMASS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEWAGE; TREES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

EAST AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 78651076121     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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