Salt marshes: A natural and unnatural history

Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-255

  Butler, Carol A ^a   Weis, Judith S ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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