Failure of Reach-Scale Restoration to Improve Biotic Integrity in a Mid-Atlantic Stream
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عنوان ژورنال: Environment and Pollution
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1927-0917,1927-0909
DOI: 10.5539/ep.v1n2p124