Perception as a tool to inform aquatic biosecurity risk assessments

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 387-404

  Cliff, Nicole ^a   Campbell, Marnie L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biosecurity management; Diatom; Didymosphenia geminata; Introduced species; Risk analysis; Social impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930484548     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2012.7.3.010     Document Type: Article

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