Life-history traits and potential invasiveness of introduced pumpkinseed lepomis gibbosus populations in northwestern Europe

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2171-2180

  Cucherousset, Julien ^a,b,c   Copp, Gordon H ^a,c   Fox, Michael G ^d   Sterud, Erik ^e,f   van Kleef, Hein H ^g   Verreycken, Hugo ^h   Záhorská, Eva ⁱ  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Université de Toulouse   (France)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^f National Institute of Technology   (Norway)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^h RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

ⁱ Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Body condition; Centrarchidae; Latitudinal clines; Life history strategy; Non native species; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; BODY CONDITION; GROWTH RATE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIBILITY; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PERCIFORM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CENTRARCHIDAE; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS;

EID: 70350361175     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9493-5     Document Type: Article

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