Facilitation and competition between invasive and indigenous mussels over a gradient of physical stress

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 607-613

  Rius, Marc ^a   McQuaid, Christopher D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Competition; Facilitation; Intertidal; Mussels; Mytilus galloprovincialis; Perna perna

Indexed keywords

MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; PERNA; PERNA PERNA;

EID: 68749112697     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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