The impact of the invasive Ponto-Caspian amphipod Pontogammarus robustoides on littoral communities in Lithuanian lakes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 599, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Gumuliauskaite, Simona ^a   Arbačiauskas, Kȩstutis ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Biomass; Diversity; Invertebrates; Native; Non native; Pontogammarid

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; OCEAN HABITATS; WATER POLLUTION;

INVERTEBRATES; PONTOGAMMARID;

LAKES;

AMPHIPOD; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

ASELLUS AQUATICUS; CHIRONOMIDAE; GAMMARIDAE; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS LACUSTRIS; INVERTEBRATA; PONTOGAMMARIDAE; PONTOGAMMARUS ROBUSTOIDES;

EID: 38849188639     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-9209-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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