Contrasting patterns of spread in interacting invasive species: Membranipora membranacea and Codium fragile off Nova Scotia

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2329-2342

  Watanabe, Shana ^a   Scheibling, Robert E ^a   Metaxas, Anna ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bryozoan; Facilitation; Invasive species; Range expansion; Seaweed; Spread

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BRYOZOAN; DEFOLIATION; FACILITATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROALGA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; RANGE EXPANSION; RECOLONIZATION; SEAWEED;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ALGAE; BRYOZOA; CODIUM FRAGILE; FUCUS; LAMINARIALES; MEMBRANIPORA MEMBRANACEA; PILEA MICROPHYLLA;

EID: 77953958408     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9647-5     Document Type: Article

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