Crayfish plague dilemma: How to be a courteous killer?

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 235-244

  Jussila, Japo ^a   Makkonen, Jenny ^a   Vainikka, Anssi ^a   Kortet, Raine ^a   Kokko, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

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