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Mangrove crabs and their relationship with the environment in mangrove forests of Dabaso and Gazi (Kenya) sampled in 1998 and 1999 Citable as data publication Gillikin D.P.; Tack J.; Vannini M.; De Wachter B; Free University of Brussels: Belgium; University of Florence: Italy; University of Antwerp: Belgium; (2016): Mangrove crabs and their relationship with the environment in mangrove forests of Dabaso and Gazi (Kenya) sampled in 1998 and 1999. https://doi.org/10.14284/157 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Counts of observed mangrove crabs and their relationship with the environment (abiotic data for the location where the crabs were found). The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Gillikin, D. P. (2000). Factors controlling the distribution of Kenyan brachyuran mangrove crabs: salinity tolerance and ecophysiology of two Kenyan Neosarmatium species. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (ECOMAMA): Brussel. 152 pp. Scope Themes: Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates, Biology > Plants Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Environmental data, ISW, Kenya, coast, Dabaso, Mangrove crab, Mangrove forests, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Gazi, Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh., Brachyura, Cardisoma carnifex (Herbst, 1796), Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B. Robinson, Epixanthus dentatus (White, 1848), Eurycarcinus natalensis (Krauss, 1843), Metopograpsus thukuhar (Owen, 1839), Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887), Neosarmatium smithi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853), Rhizophora mucronata Poir., Selatium elongatum (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869), Sesarma guttatum A. Milne-Edwards, 1869, Sesarma leptosoma Hilgendorf, 1869, Sesarma ortmanni Crosnier, 1965, Thalamita crenata Rüppell, 1830, Uca (Austruca) annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), Uca (Paraleptuca) chlorophthalmus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 39,51; MinLat: -4,41 - MaxLong: 39,98; MaxLat: -3,35 [WGS84] ISW, Kenya, Gazi Temporal coverage 1998 - 1999 Taxonomic coverage Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. [WoRMS] Brachyura [WoRMS] Cardisoma carnifex (Herbst, 1796) [WoRMS] Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B. Robinson [WoRMS] Epixanthus dentatus (White, 1848) [WoRMS] Eurycarcinus natalensis (Krauss, 1843) [WoRMS] Metopograpsus thukuhar (Owen, 1839) [WoRMS] Neosarmatium meinerti (De Man, 1887) [WoRMS] Neosarmatium smithi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) [WoRMS] Rhizophora mucronata Poir. [WoRMS] Selatium elongatum (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869) [WoRMS] Sesarma guttatum A. Milne-Edwards, 1869 [WoRMS] Sesarma leptosoma Hilgendorf, 1869 [WoRMS] Sesarma ortmanni Crosnier, 1965 [WoRMS] Thalamita crenata Rüppell, 1830 [WoRMS] Uca (Austruca) annulipes (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) [WoRMS] Uca (Paraleptuca) chlorophthalmus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) [WoRMS] Uca (Gelasimus) vocans (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS] Parameters % Coverage Carbon (C) Count Nitrogen (N) Organic matter (OM) pH Presence/absence of biota Salinity Temperature Contributors Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset Gillikin, D. P. (2000). Factors controlling the distribution of Kenyan brachyuran mangrove crabs: salinity tolerance and ecophysiology of two Kenyan Neosarmatium species. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (ECOMAMA): Brussel. 152 pp., more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2016-06-22 Information last updated: 2016-06-22 | ||||
