The Mississippi River alluvial plain

The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 272-315

  Shaffer, G P ^a   Gosselink, J G ^b   Hoeppner, S S ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511542091.009     Document Type: Chapter

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