The introduction of an invasive snail (melanoides tuberculata) to spring ecosystems of the bonneville basin, utah

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 647-657

  Rader, Russell B ^a   Belk, Mark C ^a   Keleher, M Jane ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SNAIL; SPRING WATER;

BONNEVILLE BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; PISCES; THIARIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 0347659466     PISSN: 02705060     EISSN: 21566941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2003.9664007     Document Type: Article

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