Restoring oyster reefs to recover ecosystem services

Theoretical Ecology Series

Volumn 4, Issue C, 2007, Pages 281-298

  Grabowski, Jonathan H ^a   Peterson, Charles H ^a  

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EID: 77957229729     PISSN: 1875306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1875-306X(07)80017-7     Document Type: Chapter

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