Floods Down Rivers: From Damaging to Replenishing Forces

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 39, Issue , 2006, Pages 41-62

  Lake, Sam ^a   Bond, Nick ^a   Reich, Paul ^a  

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EID: 33845399770     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(06)39003-4     Document Type: Review

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