Creating and restoring wetlands

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1019-1030

  Mitsch, William J ^a   Wu, Xinyuan ^b   Nairn, Robert W ^c   Weihe, Paul E ^d   Wang, Naiming ^a   Deal, Robert ^e   Boucher, Charles E ^f  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^d Central College   (United States)

^e SHAWNEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

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EID: 0031735857     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313458     Document Type: Review

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