Habitat restoration as a means of controlling non-native fish in a Mojave desert Oasis

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 247-256

  Scoppettone, G Gary ^a   Rissler, Peter H ^a   Gourley, Chad ^b   Martinez, Cynthia ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Otis Bay Incorporated   (United States)

^c Nevada Fish & Wildlife Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Ash meadows; Cyprinodon nevadensis; Habitat manipulation; Mojave desert; Non native fish control; Rhinichthys osculus nevadensis; Thermo springs

Indexed keywords

FISH; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RECOLONIZATION;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CYPRINODON NEVADENSIS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; PISCES; POECILIA LATIPINNA; RHINICHTHYS OSCULUS NEVADENSIS;

EID: 21044447929     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00032.x     Document Type: Article

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