Changes in the freshwater mussel communities of Lake Pepin, Upper Mississippi River, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 1990-1997

American Malacological Bulletin

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 109-122

  Hart, Rick A ^a,b   Davis, Mike ^b   Miller, Andrew C ^c   Grier, James W ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dreissenidae; Harvest; Unionidae

Indexed keywords

AMBLEMA PLICATA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; DREISSENIDAE; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 1942492149     PISSN: 07402783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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