The effect of removal by trapping on body condition in populations of signal crayfish

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1826-1831

  Moorhouse, Tom P ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body condition; Density; Invasive crayfish; Pacifastacus leniusculus; Physical removal by trapping

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; CAPTURE METHOD; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CRAYFISH; CRUSTACEAN CULTURE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FREEZING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TRAPPING;

ENGLAND; EVENLODE RIVER; THAMES RIVER [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASTACOIDEA; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS;

EID: 79957636560     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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