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Decline Of The Giant Salmonfly Pteronarcys Californica Newport, 1848 (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae) In The Provo River, Utah, Usa

  • 1. Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 4102 LSB, Provo, UT 84604, U.S.A. E-mail: rileynelson@byu.edu & Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, 32 Campus Dr., HS 104, Missoula, MT 59812, U.S.A. E-mail: jackson.birrell@umontana.edu
  • 2. Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 4102 LSB, Provo, UT 84604, U.S.A. E-mail: rileynelson@byu.edu & Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 10 Floor Schermerhorn Ext., 1200 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10033, U.S.A. E-mail: jared.meek@columbia.edu
  • 3. Department of Biology and Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 4102 LSB, Provo, UT 84604, U.S.A. E-mail: rileynelson@byu.edu

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Birrell, Jackson H., Meek, Jared B., Nelson, C. Riley (2019): Decline Of The Giant Salmonfly Pteronarcys Californica Newport, 1848 (Plecoptera: Pteronarcyidae) In The Provo River, Utah, Usa. Illiesia 15 (5): 83-97, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4758148

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