Environmental predictors of the occurrence of exotic Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle and native Egeria najas Planch. in a sub-tropical river floodplain: The Upper River Paraná, Brazil

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 632, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-78

  Sousa, W T Z ^a   Thomaz, S M ^a   Murphy, K J ^b   Silveira, M J ^a   Mormul, R P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonization; Environmental predictors; Hydrocharitaceae; Invasive species; Riverine floodplain; Submersed macrophytes

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS; HYDROCHARITACEAE; INVASIVE SPECIES; RIVERINE FLOODPLAIN; SUBMERSED MACROPHYTES;

ALKALINITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FORESTRY; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RIVERS; TRANSPARENCY;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

ALKALINITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLOODPLAIN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROPHYTE; MONOCOTYLEDON; NATIVE SPECIES; ORGANIC MATTER; REGENERATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TRANSPARENCY;

PARANA RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA;

EGERIA NAJAS; HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA; HYDROCHARITACEAE;

EID: 70349998889     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9828-3     Document Type: Article

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