Variation in desiccation tolerance in freshwater snails and its consequences for invasion ability

Biological Invasions

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 283-293

  Facon, B ^a   MacHline, E ^a   Pointier, J P ^b   David, P ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b Ctr Biol d'Ecologie Trop M   (France)

Author keywords

abiotic factors; condition specific competition; desiccation; ecological traits; invaders characteristics; invasion success; invasive snails; Martinique; Thiaridae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DESICCATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; SNAIL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; MARTINIQUE; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; PROSOBRANCHIA; THIARIDAE;

EID: 3242689737     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BINV.0000034588.63264.4e     Document Type: Article

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