Big changes to a small bay: Introduced species and long-term compositional shifts to the fouling community of Morro Bay (CA)

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1231-1251

  Needles, Lisa A ^a   Wendt, Dean E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Introduced species; Invasive species; Long term community change; New community state; Novel ecosystems; Phase shift; Watersipora subtorquata

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FOULING ORGANISM; HARBOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; INVERTEBRATE;

CALIFORNIA; MORRO BAY; UNITED STATES;

ASTEROIDEA; BRYOZOA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS NEREIS; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PISASTER; WATERSIPORA SUBTORQUATA;

EID: 84877621003     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0362-2     Document Type: Article

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