Competition and parasitism in the native White Clawed Crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes and the invasive Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in the UK

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 315-324

  Dunn, Jenny C ^a   McClymont, H Elizabeth ^a   Christmas, Martin ^b   Dunn, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austropotamobius pallipes; Competitive exclusion; Differential predation; Invasion; Microsporidia; Pacifastacus leniusculus; Parasites

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CRAYFISH; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; NATIVE SPECIES; PARASITE INFESTATION; PARASITISM; PREDATION; SPORE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

APHANOMYCES; APHANOMYCES ASTACI; ASTACOIDEA; AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS PALLIPES; MICROSPORIDIA; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS; PROTISTA; PSOROSPERMIUM HAECKELI; THELOHANIA; THELOHANIA CONTEJEANI;

EID: 58349101575     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9249-7     Document Type: Article

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