A local gammarid uses kairomones to avoid predation by the invasive crustaceans dikerogammarus villosus and orconectes limosus

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2133-2140

  Hesselschwerdt, John ^a   Tscharner, Simon ^a   Necker, Jasmin ^a   Wantzen, Karl Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Crayfish; Gammarus roeselii; Infochemicals; Lake Constance; Predator avoidance

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; INVASIVE SPECIES; KAIROMONE; NATIVE SPECIES;

BODENSEE; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ASTACOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; DIKEROGAMMARUS VILLOSUS; GAMMARIDAE; GAMMARUS; ORCONECTES LIMOSUS;

EID: 70350352186     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9492-6     Document Type: Article

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