Threats to intertidal soft-sediment ecosystems

Water Policy in the Netherlands: Integrated Management in a Densely Populated Delta

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 57-69

  Piersma, Theunis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781936331413     Document Type: Chapter

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