Implications of beaver Castor canadensis and trout introductions on native fish in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 306-313

  Moorman, Michelle C ^a,b   Eggleston, David B ^a   Anderson, Christopher B ^b,c   Mansilla, Andres ^b   Szejner, Paul ^b,d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ELECTROFISHING; FISH; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RIPARIAN ZONE; RODENT; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAM; VELOCITY; WATER DEPTH;

CAPE HORN BIOSPHERE RESERVE; CHILE; MAGALLANES;

APLOCHITON TAENIATUS; CASTOR CANADENSIS; GALAXIAS MACULATUS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 77954689870     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-081.1     Document Type: Article

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