Insights into percid population and community biology and ecology from a 70 year (1943 to 2013) study of perch perca fluviatilis in windermere, u.k.

Biology of Perch

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 148-166

  Craig, John F ^a   Fletcher, Janice M ^b   Winfield, Ian J ^b  

^a Craig Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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