Clinging to the wreckage: Unexpected persistence of freshwater biodiversity in a degraded tropical landscape

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-97

  Dudgeon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0037354715     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.578     Document Type: Editorial

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