Carbon and nitrogen balance of leaf-eating sesarmid crabs (Neoepisesarma versicolor) offered different food sources
By N. Thongtham, E. Kristensen. 2005
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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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In Ecology
- Shing Yip Lee
- I. Nordhaus
- Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
- M. Wolff
- S. Bouillon
- C. Marchand
- T. Dittmar
- E. Kristensen
In Nature and Landscape Conservation
Citations in the corpus
- Feeding ecology of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae): food choice, food quality and assimilation efficiency (2007, background): “Assimilation rates for N determined for U. cordatus are at the higher end of the range (4‐59%) reported for large litter-consuming land crabs and small mangrove crabs (Giddens et al. 1986; Greenaway and Linton 1995; Greenaway and Raghaven 1998; Thongtham and Kristensen 2005 ).”
- Mangrove macrobenthos: Assemblages, services, and linkages (2008, background): “Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this paradox (e.g. Skov and Hartnoll, 2002; Thongtham and Kristensen, 2005) but the most effective supplemental source is through occasional predation of other invertebrates and carrion.”
- Mangrove crabs as ecosystem engineers; with emphasis on sediment processes (2008, background): “It is noteworthy that the C:N ratio of faeces is lower than in the eaten leaf litter (Lee, 1997; Thongtham and Kristensen, 2005), probably due to bacterial growth and nitrogen retaining within the intestinal system.”
- The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: a review (2008, background): “Moreover, several studies have indicated that mangrove litter alone would not suffice to meet the nitrogen requirements of sesarmids (Skov and Hartnoll, 2002; Thongtham and Kristensen, 2005).”
- Faunal impact on vegetation structure and ecosystem function in mangrove forests: A review (2008, background): “…feeding behaviour of Indo-pacific sesarmids (Kwok, 1999; Skov and Hartnoll, 2002) and studies comparing the stable isotope signature of mangrove leaves and sesarmid crabs (Bouillon et al., 2002a,b; Thongtham and Kristensen, 2005) show that they do not totally rely on leaf litter as a food source.”
- Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems : a review (2008, methodology): “A biomass of 250 g ww Uca spp. respires 16 mmol CO2 d 1 (Kristensen, unpublished) and the same biomass of sesarmids (Neoepisesarma versicolor) respires 21 mmol CO2 d 1 (Thongtham and Kristensen, 2005).”