Environmental conservation and restoration ecology: Two facets of the same problem

Web Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 20-27

  Urbanska, Krystyna M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 0006429587     PISSN: 13991183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/we-1-20-2000     Document Type: Article

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