Changes in the fish community of Loch Leven: Untangling anthropogenic pressures

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 681, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-84

  Winfield, I J ^a   Adams, C E ^b   Armstrong, J D ^c   Gardiner, R ^c   Kirika, A ^a   Montgomery, J ^d   Spears, B M ^a   Stewart, D C ^c   Thorpe, J E ^c   Wilson, W ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d Kinross Estate Office   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown trout (Salmo trutta); Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); Eutrophication; Fishery; Lake level; Perch (Perca fluviatilis); Population; Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EUTROPHICATION; EXTINCTION RISK; FISH; LITERATURE REVIEW; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; MIGRATION ROUTE; POPULATION DECLINE;

HIGHLAND; LOCH LEVEN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; BARBATULA BARBATULA; CYPRINIDAE; ESOX LUCIUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; LAMPETRA PLANERI; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PERCA FLUVIATILIS; PERCOPSIS OMISCOMAYCUS; PETROMYZONTIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; SALMO SALAR; SALMO TRUTTA; SALVELINUS ALPINUS; SALVELINUS FONTINALIS;

EID: 84855340274     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0925-8     Document Type: Review

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