The need to define hydrologic equivalence at the landscape scale for freshwater wetland mitigation

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-68

  Bedford, Barbara L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Hydrology; Landscape; Regulation; Vegetation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001890748     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269552     Document Type: Article

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