Ecological roles of crayfish in freshwater and terrestrial habitats

Freshwater Crayfish

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 197-218

  Reynolds, Julian ^a   Souty Grosset, Catherine ^b   Richardson, Alastair ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Competition; Ecological engineers; Freshwater crayfish; Habitat templets; ICS and NICS; Keystone species; R and K

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964977894     PISSN: 20764324     EISSN: 20764332     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5869/fc.2013.v19-2.197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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