Beyond the concrete: Accounting for ecosystem services from free-flowing rivers

Ecosystem Services

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-5

  Auerbach, Daniel A ^a,b   Deisenroth, Daniel B ^a,c   McShane, Ryan R ^a   McCluney, Kevin E ^a,d   LeRoy Poff, N ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c ANALYSIS GROUP   (United States)

^d BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dams; Environmental flow regime; Integrated assessment; Rivers; Water infrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906216448     PISSN: 22120416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.005     Document Type: Note

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