Adaptive management and monitoring as fundamental tools to effective salt marsh restoration

Tidal Marsh Restoration: A Synthesis of Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-231

  Buchsbaum, Robert N ^a   Wigand, Cathleen ^b  

^a Massachusetts Audubon Society   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-229-7_14     Document Type: Chapter

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