Status of estuarine and marine non-indigenous species in Singapore

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn , Issue SUPPL.25, 2012, Pages 79-92

  Jaafar, Zeehan ^a   Yeo, Darren C J ^a   Tan, Heok Hui ^a   O'Riordan, Ruth M ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Estuarine; Introduction; Invasive species; Marine; Non indigenous species; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878308602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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