Climate change erodes competitive hierarchies among native, alien and range-extending crabs

• Published in: Marine Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Lauchlan, S.S., Burckard, G., Cassey, P., Nagelkerken, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Competition; species interactions; invasive species; Gauthier; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/122755; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2019.104777

Global warming and ocean acidification alter a wide range of animal behaviours, yet the effect on resource competition among species is poorly understood. We tested whether the combination of moderate levels of ocean acidification and warming altered the feeding success of co-occurring native, alien...