Invasive Species: To eat or not to eat, that is the question

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 334-341

  Nuñez, Martin A ^a   Kuebbing, Sara ^a   Dimarco, Romina D ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Culinary culture; Gastronomy; Lionfish; Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867295415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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