Food web structure provides biotic resistance against plankton invasion attempts

Biological Invasions

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-267

  Dzialowski, Andrew R ^a   Lennon, Jay T ^b   Smith, Val H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic resistance; Daphnia lumholtzi; Invasion success; Invertebrate predation; Plankton community structure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MESOCOSM; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA LUMHOLTZI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33947526956     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-006-9030-8     Document Type: Article

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