Does 'you are what you eat' apply to mangrove grapsid crabs?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bui, Thi Hong Hanh ^a   Lee, Shing Yip ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ESTUARY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LEAF LITTER; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; MANGROVE; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; PARASESARMA ERYTHODACTYLA; PRAWN MUSCLE; TROPHIC DISCRIMINATION VALUE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; AVICENNIA; BRACHYURA; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84895743154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089074     Document Type: Article

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