The Landscape Context of Flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 39, Issue , 2006, Pages 85-105

  Ballinger, Andrea ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a  

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EID: 33845461986     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(06)39005-8     Document Type: Review

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