Invasion dynamics of the snail Pseudoplotia scabra in Lake Kinneret

Biological Invasions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 7-12

  Heller, Joseph ^a   Dolev, Adina ^b,c   Zohary, Tamar ^b   Gal, Gideon ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c The Kinneret Authority   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alien species; Human accompanied species; Melanoides; Melanopsis; Substrate; Theodoxus; Thiara

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; FIELD SURVEY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; NATIVE SPECIES; SNAIL; SUBSTRATE;

ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES; MELANOPSIS; MOLLUSCA; THEODOXUS; THIARA; THIARIDAE;

EID: 84891143619     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0500-5     Document Type: Article

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