Evaluating and managing a multiply stressed ecosystem at clear lake, California: A holistic ecosystem approach

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1239-1271

  Suchanek, Thomas H ^b   Richerson, P J ^b   Nelson, D C ^b   Eagles Smith, C A ^b   Anderson, D W ^b   Cech, Joseph J ^b   Zierenberg, R ^b   Schladow, G ^b   Mount, J F ^b   McHatton, S C ^c   Slotton, D G ^a   Webber, L B ^b   Swisher, Brian J ^d   Bern, A L ^b   Sexton, M ^b  

^a University of California ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Novozymes Biotech Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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