Prolonged lag in population outbreak of an invasive mussel: A shifting-habitat model

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• population outbreak 100%
• habitat 37%
• native species 25%
• coast 21%
• alga 19%
• mortality 18%
• biogenic deposit 18%
• beachrock 17%
• biological invasion 15%
• wave action 14%
• bedform 13%
• invasive species 12%
• explosion 11%
• canal 11%
• colonization 11%
• sedimentation 8%
• saturation 8%
• salinity 8%
• exposure 6%
• sea 6%
• prediction 5%
• sediment 5%
• rate 3%
• effect 2%

Agriculture & Biology

• mussels 61%
• habitats 34%
• indigenous species 21%
• coasts 20%
• sediments 15%
• algae 13%
• Suez Canal 13%
• Red Sea 10%
• Sicily 10%
• explosions 10%
• invasive species 8%
• washing 7%
• salinity 6%
• prediction 5%