Relative impacts of two exotic brachyuran species on blue mussel populations in Long Island Sound

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 227, Issue , 2002, Pages 135-144

  Lohrer, Andrew M ^a   Whitlatch, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinus maenas; Crabs; Exotic marine species; Hemigrapsus sanguineus; Mytilus edulis; Post settlement predation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BREEDING POPULATION; CRAB; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; HEMIGRAPSUS; HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS; MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 0037070091     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps227135     Document Type: Article

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