Functional equivalency between rice fields and seminatural wetland habitats

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 181-191

  Elphick, Chris S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CONSERVATION; PADDY FIELD; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034070604     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98314.x     Document Type: Article

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