Can lake restoration by fish removal improve the status of profundal macroinvertebrate assemblages?

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1149-1161

  Jyväsjärvi, Jussi ^a   Immonen, Hemmo ^a   Högmander, Pia ^a   Högmander, Harri ^a   Hämäläinen, Heikki ^a   Karjalainen, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aeration; Before After Control Impact; Biomanipulation; Ecological assessment; O E index

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; CYPRINIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PERCIDAE;

EID: 84876472434     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12115     Document Type: Article

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