Twenty years of zebra mussels: Lessons from the mollusk that made headlines

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 135-141

  Strayer, David L ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIVALVE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 63849241533     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/080020     Document Type: Review

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