Competitive interactions during basking between native and invasive freshwater turtle species

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2141-2152

  Polo Cavia, Nuria ^a,b   López, Pilar ^a   Martín, José ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basking; Freshwater turtles; Invasive species; Mauremys leprosa; Thermoregulation; Trachemys scripta

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; RANGE EXPANSION; THERMOREGULATION; TURTLE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EMYDIDAE; MAUREMYS LEPROSA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

EID: 77953960611     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9615-0     Document Type: Article

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