Invasive tunicates fouling mussel lines: Evidence of their impact on native tunicates and other epifaunal invertebrates

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 213-220

  Lutz Collins, Vanessa ^a   Ramsay, Aaron ^b   Quijón, Pedro A ^a   Davidson, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Ciona; Invasions; Molgula; Polychaetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350171574     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2009.4.1.22     Document Type: Article

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