Strong body mass decrease of the invasive clam Corbicula fluminea during summer

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-64

  Vohmann, Andreas ^a   Borcherding, Jost ^a   Kureck, Armin ^a   Bij de Vaate, Abraham ^b   Arndt, Hartmut ^a   Weitere, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alien species; Bivalvia; Clams; Food limitation; Invasive species; Starvation stress

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BODY MASS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; MASS MORTALITY; STARVATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE RIVER;

BIVALVIA; CORBICULA; CORBICULA FLUMINEA;

EID: 72149106813     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9429-0     Document Type: Article

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