Burrowing shrimps and seagrass dynamics in shallow-water meadows off Bolinao (NW Philippines) [electronic resource] : dissertation, submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Academic Board of Wageningen University and the Academic Board of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education for the degree of doctor to be defended in public on Friday, 26 September 2008 at 15:30 H in Delft, The Netherlands / by Hildie Maria Nacorda.

Dissertation (doctoral)--Wageningen University, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

ch. 1. General introduction -- ch. 2. The distribution of burrowing shrimp disturbance in Philippine seagrass meadows (to be submitted to Estuarine, coastal and shelf science) -- ch. 3. Aboveground behavior of the snapping shrimp : Alpheus macellarius Chace, 1988, and its significance for leaf and nutrient turnover in a Philippine seagrass meadow (submitted to Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology) -- ch. 4. Burrows and behavior of the snapping shrimp : Alpheus macellarius, Chace, 1988, in different seagrass substrates (submitted to Marine biology) -- ch. 5. Growth response of the dominant seagrass : Thalassia hemprichii (Ehrenberg) Ascherson to experimental shrimp distrubance (submitted to Marine ecology progress series) -- ch. 6. General discussion and conclusions.

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Electronic reproduction. [Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2010]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.