Enhancing ecosystem services on the landscape with created, constructed and restored wetlands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Vymazal, Jan ^a,b  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b ENKI ops   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 78650243850     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.07.031     Document Type: Editorial

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