The invasive venomous striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus in the Levant: Possible mechanisms facilitating its rapid invasional success

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 283-290

  Edelist, Dor ^a   Golani, Daniel ^b   Rilov, Gil ^c   Spanier, Ehud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EEL; INVASIVE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE; TRAWLING; VENOM;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PLOTOSUS LINEATUS;

EID: 84856001354     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-011-1806-4     Document Type: Article

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