Competition between two estuarine snails: Implications for invasions of exotic species

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1225-1239

  Byers, James E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batillaria; Cerithidea; Competitive exclusion; Consumer resource interactions; Diatoms; Exploitative competition; Indirect effects; Interspecific competition; Introduced species; Mud snails; Nonindigenous species; Resource conversion efficiency; Salt marshes

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SNAIL;

BOLINAS LAGOON; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

BATILLARIA; BATILLARIA ATTRAMENTARIA; CERITHIDEA CALIFORNICA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0033939307     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1225:CBTESI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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