Biodiversity of large branchiopods of Australian saline lakes

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-80

  Timms, Brian V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian saline lakes; Diversity and salinity tolerance; Endemic crustaceans; Osmotic mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ARTEMIA; BRANCHINELLA; BRANCHINELLA SIMPLEX; BRANCHIOPODA; CRUSTACEA; EOCYZICUS; PARARTEMIA; TRIOPS;

EID: 60349097647     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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