River water quality assessment and ecosystem health: Langat river basin, Selangor, Malaysia

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1395-1419

  Yusuf, Muhammad Abu ^a   Nordin, M ^b   Abdullah, Pauzi ^c  

^a University of Science and Technology   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c LESTARI   (Malaysia)

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