Various types of subsistence and commercialextraction of mangrove products areidentified
on the North Braziliancoast. Of 2500 households in 21 ruralcommunities (about 13.000 …

This study provides the first quantification of the population food intake of the litter-
consuming mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae, L. 1763) in a New World …

Epibenthic community structure, somatic production and energy flow were studied in the
Caeté mangrove estuary in North Brazil on for 3 representative strata: high intertidal forest …

To evaluate the population structure of Ucides cordatus in the Caeté estuary, crabs were
sampled bimonthly over 13 months in three Rhizophora mangle forest stands that differed in …

Food preferences, consumption rates and dietary assimilation related to food quality were
investigated for the large semi-terrestrial and litter-consuming mangrove crab Ucides …

Abundance, biomass, population structure, growth, mortality and reproduction of 4 fiddler
crabs (Uca cumulanta, U. maracoani, U. rapax and U. vocator) were studied in the Caeté …

Activity patterns, feeding and burrowing behaviour of the economically important semi-
terrestrial mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Ucididae, L. 1763) was studied in a high …

The relationship of wet weight (WT) to cephalothorax width (CW) and temporal and seasonal
variations in the condition factor were analyzed for each sex of the mangrove crab Ucides …

During monthly samplings between September 1998 and August 2000, 3,660 specimens of
Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763)(2054 males and 1606 females) were obtained and …

The life cycle of the semiterrestrial mangrove crab Ucides cordatus includes pelagic larvae
that are released into estuarine waters during the wet season and who may thus encounter …