Teredo navalis in the Baltic Sea: Larval Dynamics of an Invasive Wood-Boring Bivalve at the Edge of Its Distribution

Wooden groin systems on the southwestern Baltic Sea coast are a traditional and important coastal-protection facility, but have been regularly infested and destroyed by the wood-boring bivalve Teredo navalis since the early 1990s. The occurrence of T. navalis was presumed to be limited mainly by the...

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Main Authors: Heike Lippert, Ronny Weigelt, Karin Glaser, Rica Krauss, Ralf Bastrop, Ulf Karsten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00331/full