Rocky intertidal zonation pattern in Antofagasta, chile: invasive species and shellfish gathering.

BACKGROUND:Biological invasions affecting rocky intertidal zonation patterns, yield information on species interactions. In the Bay of Antofagasta, northern Chile, the non-indigenous tunicate Pyura praeputialis, originally from Australia, has invaded (in the past century or so) and monopolized a maj...

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Main Authors: Juan Carlos Castilla, Patricio H Manríquez, Alejandro Delgado, Verónica Ortiz, María Elisa Jara, Manuel Varas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110301