A snail prefers native over exotic freshwater plants: Implications for the enemy release hypotheses

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2256-2263

  Xiong, Wen ^a   Yu, Dan ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Liu, Chunhua ^a   Wang, Ligong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Enemy release; Freshwater plants; Generalist herbivores; Plant herbivore interactions

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; LYMNAEIDAE; RADIX SWINHOEI;

EID: 53249124847     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02058.x     Document Type: Article

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