A calcium-based invasion risk assessment for zebra and quagga mussels (Dreissena spp)

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 180-184

  Whittier, Thomas R ^a   Ringold, Paul L ^b   Herlihy, Alan T ^a   Pierson, Suzanne M ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Indus Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIVALVE; CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOREGION; INVASIVE SPECIES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

DREISSENA; DREISSENA BUGENSIS; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 43349089157     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070073     Document Type: Article

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