Invasive fish species in the largest lakes of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England: The collective UK experience

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 660, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-103

  Winfield, I J ^a   Fletcher, J M ^a   James, J B ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alien species; Llyn Tegid; Loch Lomond; Lough Neagh; Species introductions; Windermere

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAIT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CYPRINID; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FISHERY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PERCID; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SALMONID; WATERFOWL;

ENGLAND; NORTHERN IRELAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

ABRAMIS BRAMA; ANATIDAE; BLICCA BJOERKNA; CARASSIUS; CARASSIUS CARASSIUS; COREGONUS AUTUMNALIS; COREGONUS LAVARETUS; CYPRINIDAE; ESOCIDAE; ESOX LUCIUS; GOBIO; GOBIO GOBIO; GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS; LEUCISCUS LEUCISCUS; PERCIDAE; RUTILUS RUTILUS; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS; SCARDINIUS ERYTHROPHTHALMUS;

EID: 79959811216     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0397-2     Document Type: Review

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