Distribution and abundance of trout populations in moorland and affopjested upland nursery streams in County Wicklow

Biology and Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 127-139

  Kelly Quinn, M ^a   Tierney, D ^b   Roche, W ^b   Bracken, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Central Fisheries Board Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFERED STREAMS;

WICKLOW;

EID: 0030318409     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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