Life after death: The importance of salmon carcasses to British Columbia's watersheds

Arctic

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 92-96

  Watkinson, Stephen ^a  

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EID: 0034009721     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic839     Document Type: Article

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