The distributions of one invasive and two native crayfishes in relation to coarse-scale natural and anthropogenic factors

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2415-2431

  Westhoff, J T ^a   Rabeni, C F ^a   Sowa, S P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic alteration; Classification tree models; Crayfish; Introduced species; Species displacement

Indexed keywords

ASTACOIDEA; ORCONECTES HYLAS; ORCONECTES PERUNCUS; ORCONECTES QUADRUNCUS;

EID: 80054048971     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02664.x     Document Type: Article

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