Water resources: Agriculture, the environment, and society: An assessment of the status of water resources

BioScience

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 97-106

  Pimentel, David ^a   Houser, James ^a   Preiss, Erika ^a   White, Omar ^a   Fang, Hope ^a   Mesnick, Leslie ^a   Barsky, Troy ^a   Tariche, Stephanie ^a   Schreck, Jerrod ^a   Alpert, Sharon ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

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EID: 0031020791     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313020     Document Type: Review

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