Plant exclusion of a herbivore; crayfish population decline caused by an invading waterweed

Biological Invasions

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-140

  Hessen, Dag O ^a   Skurdal, Jostein ^b   Braathen, Jan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crayfish; Elodea; Invading macrophyte; Spatial exclusion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CRAYFISH; HERBIVORE; MACROPHYTE; POPULATION DECLINE;

BUSKERUD; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; STEINSFJORDEN;

ANIMALIA; ASTACIDAE; ASTACOIDEA; ASTACUS ASTACUS; ELODEA; ELODEA CANADENSIS;

EID: 3343006470     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BINV.0000022131.40783.f0     Document Type: Article

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