When pets become pests - exotic aquarium fishes and biological invasions in Kerala, India

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 474-476

  Krishnakumar, K ^a   Raghavan, Rajeev ^a,b   Prasad, G ^a,c   Bijukumar, A ^c   Sekharan, Mini ^d   Pereira, Benno ^a   Ali, Anvar ^a  

^a St Albert s College   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^d Department of Physics   (India)

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