Skjern River Valley, Northern Europe's most expensive wetland restoration project: Benefits to breeding waterbirds

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 231-243

  Bregnballe, Thomas ^a   Amstrup, Ole ^a   Holm, Thomas E ^a   Clausen, Preben ^a   Fox, Anthony D ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EUTROPHICATION; FLOODING; HABITAT RESTORATION; MEADOW; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALMONID; WATERFOWL; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

DENMARK; MIDTJYLLAND; SKJERN RIVER;

AVES; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 84919708450     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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