Comparative Functional Responses Predict the Invasiveness and Ecological Impacts of Alien Herbivorous Snails

Meng Xu; Xidong Mu; Jaimie T. A. Dick; Miao Fang; Dangen Gu; Du Luo; Jiaen Zhang; Jianren Luo; Yinchang Hu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147017

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Comparative Functional Responses Predict the Invasiveness and Ecological Impacts of Alien Herbivorous Snails

Meng Xu,

Affiliation Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Xidong Mu,

Affiliation Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Jaimie T. A. Dick,

Affiliation Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, MBC, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Miao Fang,

Affiliations Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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Dangen Gu,

Affiliation Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Du Luo,

Affiliation Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Jiaen Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agro-environments in Tropics, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Jianren Luo,

Affiliation Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Yinchang Hu

* E-mail: huyc22@163.com

Affiliation Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Fishery Resource Application and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Guangzhou, China
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Comparative Functional Responses Predict the Invasiveness and Ecological Impacts of Alien Herbivorous Snails

Meng Xu,
Xidong Mu,
Jaimie T. A. Dick,
Miao Fang,
Dangen Gu,
Du Luo,
Jiaen Zhang,
Jianren Luo,
Yinchang Hu

Published: January 15, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147017

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