Pink eggs and snails: Field oviposition patterns of an invasive snail, Pomacea insularum, indicate a preference for an invasive macrophyte

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 646, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 243-251

  Burks, Romi L ^a   Kyle, Colin H ^a,b   Trawick, Matthew K ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colocasia; Facilitation; Fecundity; Reproduction; Substrate; Taro

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR WEED; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AQUATIC INSECTS; ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; COLOCASIA; CONCRETE SUBSTRATES; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; GULF COAST; INVASION PROCESS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE STAGES; MACROPHYTES; MANAGEMENT EFFORTS; METAL STRUCTURES; PLANT STANDS; REPRODUCTIVE RATES; SCHOENOPLECTUS CALIFORNICUS; SHALLOW LAKES; TEXAS , USA; WOODY DEBRIS;

CLUTCHES; DEBRIS; ECOLOGY; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY); WETLANDS;

SUBSTRATES;

AMPHIBIAN; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; DICOTYLEDON; EGGSHELL; FACILITATION; FECUNDITY; GASTROPOD; GENERALIST; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROPHYTE; MONOCOTYLEDON; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SNAIL; SUBSTRATE; WETLAND; WOODY DEBRIS;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ALLIGATOR; ALTERNANTHERA PHILOXEROIDES; AMPHIBIA; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MOLLUSCA; POMACEA; SCHOENOPLECTUS CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 77952012065     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0167-1     Document Type: Article

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