Impacts of introduced species on the biota of an oceanic archipelago: the relative importance of competitive and trophic interactions

Ecological Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 155-164

  Sugiura, Shinji ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands; Predation; Resource competition; Top down effects

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIOTA; HERBIVORE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITERATURE REVIEW; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATION; RESOURCE SELECTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BONIN ISLANDS; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); TOKYO [KANTO];

APOIDEA; AVES; CAPRA HIRCUS; COLEOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLATYHELMINTHES; RATTUS; SQUAMATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 84959105682     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-016-1336-0     Document Type: Article

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