Crayfish as global invaders: Distribution, impact on ecosystem services and management options

Freshwater Crayfish

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 177-187

  Gherardi, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Climate change; Control; Ecosystem services; Impacts; Invasive alien crayfish species; Mitigation; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964681368     PISSN: 20764324     EISSN: 20764332     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5869/fc.2013.v19-2.177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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