Biological invasions drive size increases in marine and estuarine invertebrates

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 700-705

  Grosholz, Edwin D ^a   Ruiz, Gregory M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Body size; Climate change; Extinction; Fossil record; Introduced species; Marine invertebrates; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RANGE EXPANSION;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0041627380     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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