The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program: Progress and Immediate Challenges

River Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 325-338

  Hamill, John F ^a   Melis, Theodore S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Flow experiments; Monitoring; Multiple resource use; River management strategy; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879126460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119961819.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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