Complex impact of an invasive crayfish on freshwater food webs

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2641-2651

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a   Siesa, Matteo Elio ^b   De Bernardi, Fiorenza ^b   Padoa Schioppa, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibian larvae; Biological invasions; Dragonfly; Mesopredator release; Native predators; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CRAYFISH; DOMINANCE; DRAGONFLY; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LARVA; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AMPHIBIA; ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); ASTACOIDEA; HEXAPODA; NOTONECTIDAE; PROCAMBARUS CLARKII;

EID: 84865440699     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0323-1     Document Type: Article

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