Invasive seaweed enhances recruitment of a native bivalve: Roles of refuge from predation and the habitat choice of recruits

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 318, Issue , 2006, Pages 177-185

  Gribben, Paul E ^a   Wright, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anadara trapezia; Bivalve; Caulerpa taxifolia; Habitat choice; Invasion biology; Juveniles; Predation; Recruitment; Settlement cues; Soft sediment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROPHYTE; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT; REFUGE; SEAWEED;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; LAKE CONJOLA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ANADARA TRAPEZIA; BIVALVIA; CAULERPA; CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA; CHLOROPHYTA; HALOPHILA OVALIS; ZOSTERA CAPRICORNI;

EID: 33747058531     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps318177     Document Type: Article

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