Litter processing and population food intake of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus in a high intertidal forest in northern Brazil

By I. Nordhaus, M. Wolff, K. Diele. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology

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1. J. Hutchison
2. I. Nordhaus
3. M. Wolff
4. S. Bouillon
5. C. Marchand
6. T. Dittmar
7. E. Kristensen
8. S. Blaber

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• THE ROLE OF MANGROVES IN FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT (2014, result): “Similar results have been found in Brazil, where the crab Ucides cordatus was found to consume 84.2% of the total daily litterfall (Nordhaus et al. 2006).”
• The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: a review (2008, background): “, Lee, 1998) and species such as the crab Ucides cordatus (Nordhaus et al., 2005) and the gastropod Terebralia palustris (Slim et al.”
• Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems : a review (2008, background): “About four decades ago, Odum (1968) proposed a groundbreaking hypothesis in coastal ecology according to which the outwelling of litter from coastal wetlands is a major source of energy that supports much of the secondary production of estuaries and nearshore waters.”
• Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective (2017, unknown): “the large-bodied Ucides cordatus could consume >80% of the leaf litter and propagules produced by Rhizophora mangle in north Brazil (Nordhaus et al. 2006), similar to the impact of sesarmids in the IWP (Lee 2008).”
• Faunal impact on vegetation structure and ecosystem function in mangrove forests: A review (2008, unknown): “The Ocypodidae of the genus Ucides have a heavy impact in terms of retention of forest products and processing of organic matter on New world mangroves (Twilley et al., 1997; Nordhaus et al., 2006).”
• Feeding ecology of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae): food choice, food quality and assimilation efficiency (2007, methodology): “Assimilation rates were calculated for individual crabs and were extrapolated for the U. cordatus population at RF. These calculations were based on the known size-frequency distribution and the daily litter consumption of the crab population (4.1 g m ‐2 day ‐1 at RF; Nordhaus et al. 2006 ).”