Evaluating the potential impact of bird predation on the SW Atlantic fiddler crab Leptuca uruguayensis

• Published in: Helgoland Marine Research
• Main Authors: Ribeiro, Pablo Damián, Navarro, Diego, Jaureguy, Luciano M., Daleo, Pedro, Iribarne, Oscar Osvaldo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: FIDDLER CRABS; UCA URUGUAYENSIS; LEPTUCA URUGUAYENSIS; PREDTION IMPACT; SHOREBIRD PREDATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Navarro; Pablo; Arenaria interpres; Numenius phaeopus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/121946

The southernmost permanent population of the fiddler crab Leptuca uruguayensis occurs along the Samborombón Bay (36°22′S, 56°45′W, Argentina), an important feeding site for many bird species, including ruddy turnstones (Arenaria interpres), whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus), grey plovers (Pluvialis squa...