Name: Mangrove crabs and their relationship with the environment in mangrove forests of Dabaso and Gazi (Kenya) sampled in 1998 and 1999
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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.

Citation

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. (http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5407) https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/157

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Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=kenyan_brachyuran_mangrove_crabs_1998_1999

Contacts

Marco Vannini
University of Florence

Bart De Wachter
Universiteit Antwerpen

Jurgen Tack
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

David Gillikin
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

University of Florence
University of Florence

Universiteit Antwerpen
Universiteit Antwerpen

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre

Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute

total submitted occurrences

accepted occurrences

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	42	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	42	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	42	100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		42	100.0%
ON_LAND		22	52.4%

Mangrove crabs and their relationship with the environment in mangrove forests of Dabaso and Gazi (Kenya) sampled in 1998 and 1999

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data