Population structure of an invasive parthenogenetic gastropod in coastal lakes and estuaries of northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Miranda, Nelson A F ^a   Perissinotto, Renzo ^a   Appleton, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GASTROPOD; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SALINITY; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES INVASION; TAREBIA GRANIFERA; WATER TEMPERATURE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM; TAREBIA GRANIFERA; TREMATODA;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GASTROPODA; GEOGRAPHY; LAKES; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 80052331598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024337     Document Type: Article

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