The keystone role of leaf-removing crabs in mangrove forests of North Brazil

By D. Schories, Audrey Barletta Bergan, M. Barletta, Uwe Krumme, U. Mehlig, Verena Rademaker. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 2003

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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In Ecology

1. K. Diele
2. S. Bouillon
3. C. Marchand
4. T. Dittmar
5. Aaron M. Ellison
6. Uwe Krumme
7. E. Kristensen
8. U. saint-Paul

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Uwe Krumme
2. U. saint-Paul
3. Aaron M. Ellison
4. H. Rosenthal
5. E. Kristensen
6. T. Dittmar
7. S. Bouillon

In Plant Science

1. Aaron M. Ellison
2. E. Kristensen
3. K. Diele
4. Jeffrey Chow
5. Nicholas Gotelli
6. Jeremy T. Kerr
7. D. Currie

Citations in the corpus

• Population structure, catch composition and CPUE of the artisanally harvested mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae) in the Caeté estuary, North Brazil: Indications for overfishing? (2005, background): “By retaining nutrients and energy within the forest and by enriching the detritus with shredded leaf material and faeces, U. cordatus acts as a keystone species in the mangrove forest ecosystem (Koch and Wolff 2002; Schories et al. 2003; Nordhaus 2004).”
• More than marine: revealing the critical importance of mangrove ecosystems for terrestrial vertebrates (2017, background): “, 2004)), there is a strong bias towards research on their marine fauna, including polychaetes (Metcalfe & Glasby, 2008), molluscs (Appadoo & Roomaldawo, 2013), shrimp (Primavera, 1998), crabs (Schories et al., 2003) and fish (Faunce & Serafy, 2006).”
• Tidal and diel changes in the structure of a nekton assemblage in small intertidal mangrove creeks in northern Brazil (2004, background): “The tide is the principal pulse of the mangrove system, synchronizing changes in abundance of fish, shrimp, zooplankton (Krumme and Liang 2004), detritus export (Schories et al. 2003) and biogeochemical parameters (Dittmar and Lara 2001).”
• Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems : a review (2008, background): “From the well-developed mangrove forest in Brazil about 13 mol C m 2 year 1 of floating debris were exported through tidal creeks over the course of an annual sampling campaign (Schories et al., 2003).”
• Managing mangroves with benthic biodiversity in mind: Moving beyond roving banditry (2008, background): “Although crabs have often been considered to be ‘keystone species’ (sensu Holling, 1992) in mangroves because of their role in carbon recycling (Schories et al., 2003) and selective propagule predation leading to zonation of tree species (Smith et al., 1989), there is as yet no evidence that they…”