Response time of wetland biodiversity to road construction on adjacent lands

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 86-94

  Findlay, C Scott ^a   Bourdages, Josée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; WETLAND;

EID: 0034112474     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.99086.x     Document Type: Article

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