Aspects of the conservation biology of Coregonus lavaretus in Britain

• Main Author: Etheridge, Elizabeth C.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: QH301 Biology; QL Zoology; Q Science (General); Arctic; Loch Lomond; Arctic charr; Salvelinus alpinus; Gymnocephalus cernuus
• Online Access: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1598/; http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1598/1/2009EtheridgePhD.pdf; https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b2713341

Conservation of phenotypically variable taxa such as the European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) can be particularly challenging. In this thesis it is argued that the recent designation of seven native C. lavaretus populations as three endemic species (C. clupeoides, C. stigmaticus and C. pennantii...