Mangroves, insects and leaf economics: recent studies reveal that it takes three to do the mangrove tango.(Brief Article) Habitat Australia | August 1, 2003| | COPYRIGHT 2003 Australian Conservation Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

IT'S A MAD CRAB SCRAMBLE when leaves fall in the mangrove. And it has to be. Mangrove productivity depends on the crabs' ability to collect leaf litter before the tide washes it away. The important role played by leaf-eating crabs in mangrove ecology has been known for some time but we're only just beginning to understand what causes leaves to fall in the first place.

Damien Burrows, a doctoral student with the Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone Estuary and Waterway Management, is studying the role of leaf-eating insects in mangrove ecology at James Cook ...

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