Invasion of a reef-builder polychaete: Direct and indirect impacts on the native benthic community structure

Biological Invasions

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-149

  Schwindt, Evangelina ^a,b   Bortolus, Alejandro ^a,b,d   Iribarne, Oscar Osvaldo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crabs; Ecosystem engineer; Exotic species; Ficopomatus; Polychaete; Predation; Reef

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COASTAL LAGOON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; REEF;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; CYRTOGRAPSUS; CYRTOGRAPSUS ANGULATUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FICOPOMATUS; FICOPOMATUS ENIGMATICUS; GASTROPODA; HETEROMASTUS; LAEONEREIS; LAEONEREIS ACUTA; NEPHTYS; OSTRACODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0035731474     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014571916818     Document Type: Article

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