Dietary flexibility aids Asian earthworm invasion in North American forests

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2070-2079

  Zhang, Weixin ^a,b   Hendrix, Paul F ^c   Snyder, Bruce A ^c,g   Molina, Marirosa ^d   Li, Jianxiong ^e   Rao, Xingquan ^a   Siemann, Evan ^f   Fu, Shenglei ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e Guangdong Academy of Sciences   (China)

^f RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"third habitat " approach; Amynthas agrestis; Earthworm invasion; Feeding effect; Food web; Great smoky mountains national park; Habitat invasibility; Lumbricus rubellus; Phospholipid fatty acid; Soil microbe; Species invasiveness; Stable isotopes; Tennessee; USA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; EARTHWORM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD WEB; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LITTER; NATIVE SPECIES; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; OLIGOCHAETA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NORTH AMERICA; OLIGOCHAETA; TREES;

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

AMYNTHAS AGRESTIS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77954575223     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0979.1     Document Type: Article

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