Ecosystem responses in the Rhine-Meuse delta during two decades after enclosure and steps toward estuary restoration

Estuaries

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 504-520

  Smit, Henk ^a,e   Van Der Velde, Gerard ^b   Smits, Rob ^c   Coops, Hugo ^d  

^a National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

^d INST INLAND WATER MGMT WASTE W   (Netherlands)

^e Natl Ref Ctr for Nat Conserv   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTAS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENCLOSURES; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS; ESTUARY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA;

AVES;

EID: 1842410755     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352610     Document Type: Article

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