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Environmental Assessment of Estuarine Ecosystems: A Case Study

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-17

  Amiard Triquet, Claude ^a   Dauvin, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

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