Drastic change in China's lakes and reservoirs over the past decades

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yang, Xiankun ^a   Lu, Xixi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

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EID: 84906071039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06041     Document Type: Article

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