Competition between an invasive urchin and commercially fished abalone: Effect on body condition, reproduction and survivorship

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 377, Issue , 2009, Pages 169-182

  Strain, Elisabeth M A ^a   Johnson, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centrostephanus rodgersii; Competition; Fishing; Haliotis rubra; Invasion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIVALVE; BODY CONDITION; ECHINODERM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; REPRODUCTION; ROCKY SHORE; STOMACH CONTENT; SURVIVAL; SURVIVORSHIP;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ALGAE; CENTROSTEPHANUS RODGERSII; HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS RUBRA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 62149135843     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07816     Document Type: Article

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