The CREAMS model for evaluating the effectiveness of buffer strips in reducing sediment loads to wetlands

Wetlands: Environmental Gradients, Boundaries, and Buffers

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 251-261

  McKague, K J ^a   Cao, Y Z ^b   Stephenson, D E ^a  

^a Ecologistics Ltd   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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