Predicting Free-Space Occupancy on Novel Artificial Structures by an Invasive Intertidal Barnacle Using a Removal Experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bracewell, Sally A ^a,c   Robinson, Leonie A ^a   Firth, Louise B ^b   Knights, Antony M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTROMINIUS MODESTUS; BARNACLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES INVASION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; THORACICA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883411692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074457     Document Type: Article

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