• Biology
• Published in
  Wetlands Ecology and…
  2002
• DOI:10.1023/A:1020133110407

An exploratory study on grapsid crab zonation in Kenyan mangroves

@article{DahdouhGuebas2002AnES,
  title={An exploratory study on grapsid crab zonation in Kenyan mangroves},
  author={Farid Dahdouh-Guebas and Marc Verneirt and Stefano Cannicci and James Gitundu Kairo and Jurgen F Tack and Nico Koedam},
  journal={Wetlands Ecology and Management},
  year={2002},
  volume={10},
  pages={179-187}
}

• Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Marc Verneirt, +3 authors Nico Koedam

Despite earlier efforts to understand the role played by grapsid crabs inmangroves, their importance in the structuring and functioning of suchsystems is fully appreciated, particularly with regard to small-scalestudies. The present study provides some new data on the interaction between mangroves and crabs, namely the link between the distribution of particular mangrove tree species and the distribution of certain crab species at the assemblage level. Floristicand faunistic relevés were made… CONTINUE READING

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