Keystone predators (eastern newts, Notophthalmus viridescens) reduce the impacts of an aquatic invasive species

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 342-349

  Smith, Kevin G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aquatic ecology; Biotic resistance; Competition; Nonindigenous species; Predation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; NEWT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; BUFO TERRESTRIS; NOTOPHTHALMUS; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 33745425069     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0370-y     Document Type: Article

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