Urban forest acoustics

Urban Forest Acoustics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-181

  Bucur, Voichita ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-30789-3     Document Type: Book

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