Environmental implications of erosive rainfall across the mediterranean

Environmental Impact Assessments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-254

  Diodato, Nazzareno ^a   Bellocchi, Gianni ^a  

^a GTOS/TEMS Network Terrestrial   (Italy)

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