Burrows of the semi-terrestrial crab ucides cordatus enhance CO2 release in a North Brazilian mangrove forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Pülmanns, Nathalie ^a   Diele, Karen ^b   Mehlig, Ulf ^c   Nordhaus, Inga ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTECOLOGY; BIOTURBATION; BRAZIL; BREATHING RATE; BURROW; BURROWING SPECIES; CARBON CYCLING; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CARBON DIOXIDE EXCRETION; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; CARBON DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST; MALE; MANGROVE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PH; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SEDIMENT; UCIDES CORDATUS; ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); UCIDES CORDATUS;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; BRAZIL; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84908079586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109532     Document Type: Article

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