Emerging associations on marine rocky shores: Specialist herbivores on introduced macroalgae

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 294-308

  Trowbridge, Cynthia D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codium fragile; Host specificity; Host switching; Introduced species; Sacoglossans

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD PREFERENCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; ROCKY SHORE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [UNITED KINGDOM]; EURASIA; EUROPE; GUERNSEY; IRELAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CODIUM; CODIUM FRAGILE; CODIUM TOMENTOSUM; CODIUM VERMILARA; ELYSIA; ELYSIA VIRIDIS; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PLACIDA; PLACIDA DENDRITICA; VICTORIA;

EID: 1542753579     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00808.x     Document Type: Article

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