TY - JOUR AU - TEVAR MASAGCA, JIMMY PY - 2024/01/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - FEEDING ECOLOGY OF TREE-CLIMBING MANGROVE SESARMID CRABS FROM LUZON, PHILIPPINES JF - BIOTROPIA JA - BIOTROPIA VL - 16 IS - 1 SE - Research Paper DO - 10.11598/btb.2009.16.1.61 UR - https://journal.biotrop.org/index.php/biotropia/article/view/61 SP - AB - Despite the large ecological study of tree-climbing mangrove sesarmid crabs in other <br />countries, the Philippine representatives appear to have not been investigated extensively. <br />This paper presents the feeding ecology as to dependence on mangrove trees of sesarmids in <br />different mangrove areas of southern Luzon. This is biased on the nature of the crab habitats, <br />arboreal climbing skills and burrowing behavior of the sesarmids:  Selatium elongatum  and <br />Episesarma versicolor - exclusive mangrove tree climbers (EMTC); Sarmatium germaini - <br />occasional mangrove tree climber (OMTC); and the non-mangrove tree-climbing (NMTC) <br />sesarmids- Neosarmatium smithii, Perisesarma bidens and Perisesarma eumolpe.<br />Key words:    mangrove crabs, sesarmid crabs, climbing skills, burrowing skills, arboreal climbing <br />crabs, Catanduanes, Philippines ER -