Tropical high-altitude streams

Tropical Stream Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 219-256

  Jacobsen, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088449-0.50010-8     Document Type: Chapter

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