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Sturgeon biodiversity and conservation: An introduction

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Book cover Sturgeon Biodiversity and Conservation

Part of the book series: Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes ((DEBF,volume 17))

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  1. Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    William E. Bemis

  2. The Sturgeon Society, 331 West 57th Street, Suite 159, New York, NY, 10019, USA

    Vadim J. Birstein

  3. Hudson River Foundation, 40 West 20th Street, Ninth Floor, New York, NY, 10011, USA

    John R. Waldman

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Bemis, W.E., Birstein, V.J., Waldman, J.R. (1997). Sturgeon biodiversity and conservation: An introduction. In: Birstein, V.J., Waldman, J.R., Bemis, W.E. (eds) Sturgeon Biodiversity and Conservation. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46854-9_2

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