Knowledge gaps and challenges in wetlands under climate change in canada

Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 355-372

  Warner, B G ^a   Asada, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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