The Nile perch in Lake Victoria: Local responses and adaptations

Africa

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 510-538

  Pringle, Robert M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXTINCTION; FISHERY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEOST;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

LATES NILOTICUS;

EID: 33846968227     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2005.75.4.510     Document Type: Article

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