Restoring tire tracks: Lessons from the southern Namib Desert

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-274

  Burke, Antje ^a   Cloete, Julien ^b  

^a EnviroScience   (Namibia)

^b Skorpion Zinc Mine   (Namibia)

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EID: 9344261395     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.22.4.269     Document Type: Review

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