A GIS framework for collecting, managing, and analyzing multiscale landscape variables across large regions for river conservation and management

American Fisheries Society Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue 48, 2006, Pages 49-74

  Brenden, Travis O ^a   Clark Jr , Richard D ^a   Cooper, Arthur R ^a   Seelbach, Paul W ^a   Wang, Lizhu ^a   Aichele, Stephen S ^b   Bissell, Edward G ^b   Stewart, Jana S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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