Fast response of freshwater consumers to a new trophic resource: Predation on the recently introduced Asian bivalve Limnoperna fortunei in the lower Paraná river, South America

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-415

  Sylvester, Francisco ^a,c   Boltovskoy, Demetrio ^a,b,c   Cataldo, Daniel H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Limnoperna fortunei; Predation; Trophic impact; Trophic webs

Indexed keywords

FAUNA; FRESHWATER; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLLUSC; PREDATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; PARANA RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BIVALVIA; CRUSTACEA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; GASTROPODA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; LIMNOPERNA FORTUNEI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34248150971     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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