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Stochastic dispersal increases the rate of upstream spread: A case study with green crabs on the northwest Atlantic coast

Dispersal heterogeneity is an important process that can compensate for downstream advection, enabling aquatic organisms to persist or spread upstream. Our main focus was the effect of year-to-year variation in larval dispersal on invasion spread rate. We used the green crab, Carcinus maenas, as a c...

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Autores principales: Gharouni, Ali, Barbeau, Myriam A., Chassé, Joël, Wang, Lin, Watmough, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28961269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185671