Mass spawning of crabs: ecological implications in subtropical Australia

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 803, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 239-250

  Saintilan, Neil ^a   Mazumder, Debashish ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diet; Habitat; Mangrove; Saltmarsh; Stable isotope; Trophic relay

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; CRAB; FOOD CHAIN; GRASS; HERBIVORY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MACROPHYTE; MANGROVE; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPAWNING; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; ZOOPLANKTON;

AUSTRALIA;

ALGAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PISCES; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPOROBOLUS VIRGINICUS;

EID: 85015903665     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3150-2     Document Type: Review

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