Community impacts of two invasive crabs: The interactive roles of density, prey recruitment, and indirect effects

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 927-940

  Griffen, Blaine D ^a,b   Byers, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional redundancy; Functional similarity; Introduced species; Nonindigenous species; Per capita effects; Population level effects; Scaling up; Species redundancy; Trait mediated indirect effects

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CRAB; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEMIGRAPSUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 61449099570     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9305-3     Document Type: Article

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