The impact of an invasive predator (Orconectes rusticus) on freshwater snail communities: Insights on habitat-specific effects from a multilake long-term study

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1164-1173

  Kreps, Timothy A ^a,b   Baldridge, Ashley K ^a   Lodge, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CRAYFISH; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SNAIL;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ASTACOIDEA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; ORCONECTES RUSTICUS;

EID: 84863190640     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F2012-052     Document Type: Article

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