The Natural Flow Regime
1997/12/01 by N. LeRoy Poff, J. David Allan, Mark B. Bain +7 · 6,417 citations
Environmental Science · #Archaeology #Environmental science #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Geography #Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes #Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies #Natural (archaeology)
paper · pdf · doi:10.2307/1313099
published in BioScience 47(11), 769-784 (Oxford University Press)
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Abstract
N. LeRoy Poff, J. David Allan, Mark B. Bain, James R. Karr, Karen L. Prestegaard, Brian D. Richter, Richard E. Sparks, Julie C. Stromberg; The Natural Flow
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