Predicting the locations of naturally fishless lakes

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1021-1035

  Schilling, Emily Gaenzle ^a   Loftin, Cynthia S ^a   Degoosh, Katie E ^b   Huryn, Alexander D ^c   Webster, Katherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b RI Department of Environmental Management   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fishless lakes; Geographic information systems; Introduced species; Predictive spatial model

Indexed keywords

CHAOBORUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 41849119805     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01949.x     Document Type: Article

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