Environmental heterogeneity limits the local dominance of an invasive freshwater crustacean

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2095-2105

  Kestrup, Åsa M ^a   Ricciardi, Anthony ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amphipod; Competition; Conductivity; Echinogammarus; Gammarus; Intraguild predation; Invasive species; Species replacement

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES;

NORTH AMERICA; SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER;

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; ECHINOGAMMARUS; ECHINOGAMMARUS ISCHNUS; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS FASCIATUS;

EID: 70350369708     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9490-8     Document Type: Article

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