Biological response signatures: Toward the detection of cause-and-effect and diagnosis in environmental disturbance

Biological Response Signatures: Indicator Patterns Using Aquatic Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 3-12

  Simon, Thomas P ^a  

^a US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

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EID: 84982961825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420041453     Document Type: Chapter

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