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Removal and disease assessment of introduced fish in Alexandria Boulevard Reserve, City of Gosnells 2022
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Removal and disease assessment of introduced fish in Alexandria Boulevard Reserve, City of Gosnells 2022

Stephen J Beatty, David Morgan, Cindy Palermo and Jake Daviot
Final Report. Prepared for Claire Bartron
Harry Butler Institute. Murdoch University
2022
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Abstract

Carp invasive fish Freshwater ecology Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
The number of introduced fish species now outnumber the highly endemic (>80% endemism) native fish in southwestern Australia with the rate of detection rapidly increasing over the past ~20 years (Figure 1 in Beatty and Morgan, 2013; Hourston et al., 2014). Introduced freshwater fish have a range of detrimental impacts on wetlands and rivers including competing with native species, predation on multiple levels of food webs, causing declines in vegetation and water quality…

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