The dynamics and ecology of exotic tropical species in floating plant mats: Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 488, Issue , 2002, Pages 115-122

  Adams, C S ^a   Boar, R R ^b   Hubble, D S ^c   Gikungu, M ^d   Harper, D M ^c   Hickley, P ^a   Tarras Wahlberg, N ^e  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e Kyrkeryds Lillegård   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eichhornia crassipes; Salvinia molesta; Water hyacinth

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; NAVIGATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); WEED CONTROL;

FERNS;

LAKES;

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

KENYA;

ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; FILICOPHYTA; HYACINTHUS; INVERTEBRATA; PTERIDOPHYTA; SALVINIA; SALVINIA MOLESTA;

EID: 0038579395     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023322430005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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