caa a22 4500 463167880 CHVBK 20180406164804.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10530-006-9070-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10530-006-9070-0 Vulnerability of benthic habitats to the aquatic invasive species [Elektronische Daten] [Anastasija Zaiko, Sergej Olenin, Darius Daunys, Tomas Nalepa] A comparative vulnerability analysis of 16 selected benthic habitat types in the SE Baltic Sea waters and the Curonian lagoon, including Klaipeda strait, was performed using long-term monitoring datasets (1980-2003) and results of several other surveys in the lagoon and the sea. Results indicated that invasive species richness (number of alien species per habitat) in lagoon habitats was significantly higher than in the sea. Habitats formed by artificial rock and stone, sand, mud, and habitats modified by zebra mussel shell deposits appeared to be the most invaded. Highest invasive species richness occurred in habitats with high native species richness indicating that the main factors driving native species distribution (such as favourable physical conditions, habitat alterations generated by human or/and biotic activities) are also driving aquatic invaders. Physical factors distinguished to be the most important for native and invasive species distribution were salinity, depth range (expressed by the maximal and minimal depths difference within a habitat), shallowness of a habitat (expressed by a minimal depth), and availability of a hard substrate. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Invasibility, Invasive species nationallicence Vacant niches nationallicence Species richness nationallicence Benthic macrofauna nationallicence Baltic Sea nationallicence Zebra mussel nationallicence Zaiko Anastasija Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto 84, LT-92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania aut Olenin Sergej Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto 84, LT-92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania aut Daunys Darius Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto 84, LT-92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania aut Nalepa Tomas Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2205 Commonwealth Blvd, 48105-2945, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut Biological Invasions Springer Netherlands 9/6(2007-08-01), 703-714 1387-3547 9:6<703 2007 9 10530 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9070-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9070-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zaiko Anastasija Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto 84, LT-92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Olenin Sergej Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto 84, LT-92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Daunys Darius Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto 84, LT-92294, Klaipeda, Lithuania aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nalepa Tomas Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2205 Commonwealth Blvd, 48105-2945, Ann Arbor, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biological Invasions Springer Netherlands 9/6(2007-08-01), 703-714 1387-3547 9:6<703 2007 9 10530 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer