Nicaragua Canal could wreak environmental ruin

Nature

Volumn 506, Issue 7488, 2014, Pages 287-289

  Meyer, Axel ^a   Huete Pérez, Jorge A ^b  

^a Universidad Centroamericana   (Nicaragua)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONFLICT; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HONG KONG; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NICARAGUA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HONG KONG; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, ECONOMIC; NICARAGUA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84894233601     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/506287a     Document Type: Note

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