Conservation of the vendace (Coregonus albula), the U.K.'s rarest freshwater fish

Advances in Limnology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 547-559

  Winfield, Ian J ^a   Adams, Colin E ^b   Bean, Colin W ^c   Durie, N Cameron ^d   Fletcher, Janice M ^a   Gowans, Andrew R ^d   Harrod, Chris ^e   James, J Ben ^a   Lyle, Alex A ^f   Maitland, Peter S ^g   Thompson, Caroline ^h   Verspoor, Eric ^h  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^f ALP   (United Kingdom)

^g Fish Conservation Centre   (United Kingdom)

^h MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bassenthwaite Lake; Derwent Water; Eutrophication; Habitat management; Loch Skeen; Monitoring; Public awareness; Sedimentation; Species introductions; Translocation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EGG PREDATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84864305579     PISSN: 1612166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1127/advlim/63/2012/547     Document Type: Article

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