Assessment of the population status and threats to the horseshoe crabs along the northern east coast of India

Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Marine Faunal Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 137-146

  Basudev, Tripathy ^a   Sivakumar, K ^c   Sajan, John ^b   Satyaranjan, Behera ^c   Choudhury, B C ^c  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b Dakshin Foundation   (India)

^c Wildlife Institute of India   (India)

Author keywords

Breeding; Density; Horseshoe crab; Incidental catch; Odisha; Predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929758895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38200-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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