Abiotic factors controlling the establishment and abundance of the invasive golden mussel Limnoperna fortunei

• Published in: Biological invasions Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 717 - 729
• Main Authors: Oliveira, Márcia D, Calheiros, Débora F, Jacobi, Claudia M, Hamilton, Stephen K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.03.2011; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abiotic factors; Abiotic stress; Animal populations; aquatic invertebrates; Asia; basins; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Bivalvia; Brazil; calcium; chlorophyll; Developmental Biology; Dissolved oxygen; Ecology; Freshwater; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Freshwater ecology; Freshwater organisms; Invasive species; Life Sciences; Limnoperna fortunei; Mollusks; mussels; Mytilidae; Nonnative species; Original Paper; Oxygen; Oxygen depletion; Pantanal; Paraguay; Plant Sciences; Population density; risk; Rivers; seasonal variation; Seasonal variations; Shellfish; solids; Suspended solids; velocity; water; Water temperature; wetlands; Pantanal; Brazil; Paraguay; Asia; Brazil, Paraguay R; Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Puerto Suarez, Pantanal; Argentina, La Plata Basin; South America; Freshwater mollusks; Oxygen; Calcium; Aquatic invasive species; Wetlands

Limnoperna fortunei (Bivalvia, Mytilidae), a freshwater bivalve native to Southern Asia, has been an invasive species in South America since 1991. It spread upstream in the La Plata basin reaching the Paraguay River in the vicinity of the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, around 1998. The role of abiotic fa...