Active or passive recovery? Discussing implications of vegetation diversity in unmanaged salt marshes
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عنوان ژورنال: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0272-7714
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.04.018