An Individual-Based Model of Swan-Macrophyte Conflicts on a Chalk River

River Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 339-343

  Wood, Kevin A ^a   Stillman, Richard A ^b   Daunt, Francis ^a   O'Hare, Matthew T ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fisheries; Macrophytes; Mathematical models; Ranunculus; River management strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858617600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119961819.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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