Fisheries of the Yangtze river show immediate impacts of the three Gorges dam

Fisheries

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 343-344

  Xie, Songguang ^a   Li, Zhongjie ^a   Liu, Jiashou ^a   Xie, Shouqi ^a   Wang, Hongzhu ^a   Murphy, Brian R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34848913149     PISSN: 03632415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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