Absence of overall feedback in a benthic estuarine community: A system potentially buffered from impacts of biological invasions

Estuaries

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 275-291

  Castillo, Gonzalo C ^a   Li, Hiram W ^a   Rossignol, Philippe A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; YAQUINA BAY;

HOBSONIA FLORIDA; NIPPOLEUCON HINUMENSIS; PSEUDOPOLYDORA KEMPI;

EID: 0034122046     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352833     Document Type: Article

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