Muddied waters: Suspended sediment impacts on gill structure and aerobic scope in an endangered native and an invasive freshwater crayfish

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 722, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-74

  Rosewarne, Paula J ^a   Svendsen, Jon C ^b,c   Mortimer, Robert J G ^a   Dunn, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Conservation; Endangered species; Environmental stressor; Parasite; Translocation; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; PARASITE; PARASITE INFESTATION; SUSPENDED LOAD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TRANSLOCATION; WATER QUALITY;

ASTACOIDEA; AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS PALLIPES; BRANCHIOBDELLA ASTACI; MICROSPORIDIA; PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS; THELOHANIA; THELOHANIA CONTEJEANI;

EID: 84888293093     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1675-6     Document Type: Article

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