Inserting ecological detail into economic analysis: Agricultural nutrient loading of an estuary fishery

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1688-1722

  Finnoff, David ^a   Tschirhart, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; General equilibrium; Nutrient loading; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861395878     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3101688     Document Type: Article

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7. With standard error of 0.385 and a p-value of less than 10%.