The Lake Sturgeon as survivor and integrative indicator of changes in stressed aquatic systems in the Laurentian Basin

The Great Lake Sturgeon

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-57

  Regier, Henry A ^a   Hughes, Robert M ^b   Gannon, John E ^b  

^a Royal Society of Canada Federation of Ontario Naturalists   (Canada)

^b NONE

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