Riparian vegetation responses: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and vice versa

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 110, Issue , 1999, Pages 309-327

  Kearsley, Michael J C ^a   Ayers, Tina J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001116521     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM110p0309     Document Type: Chapter

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