Competitive interactions between co-occurring invaders: Identifying asymmetries between two invasive crayfish species

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1791-1803

  Hudina, Sandra ^a   Galić, Nika ^b   Roessink, Ivo ^b   Hock, Karlo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonistic interactions; Crayfish; Freshwater invasion; Interspecies competition; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ASYMMETRY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CRAYFISH; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FITNESS; INJURY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION REGULATION; SHELTER;

EUROPE;

ASTACOIDEA; ORCONECTES LIMOSUS; PACIFASTACUS; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS;

EID: 79960042527     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9933-2     Document Type: Article

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