Scale dependent effects of native prey diversity, prey biomass and natural disturbance on the invasion success of an exotic predator

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1357-1366

  Pintor, Lauren M ^a,b   Sih, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Natural disturbance; Predator invasions; Prey diversity; Scale dependent

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; BIOTIC FACTOR; CRAYFISH; DISCHARGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ALGAE; ASTACOIDEA;

EID: 79956002235     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9894-5     Document Type: Article

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