Predatory efficiency of crayfish: Comparison between indigenous and non-indigenous species

Biological Invasions

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-99

  Renai, Barbara ^a   Gherardi, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

'Confusion effect'; Austropotamobius italicus; Crayfish; Indigenous species; Non indigenous species; Predation; Procambarus clarkii; Sit and wait predatory strategy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRAYFISH; PREDATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; ASTACOIDEA; AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS ITALICUS; CAMBARIDAE; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LIMNEPHILIDAE; PROCAMBARUS; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII; RANA ITALICA;

EID: 0842323954     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BINV.0000010126.94675.50     Document Type: Article

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