Impacts and Implications of Major Changes Caused by the Three Gorges Dam in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, China

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  2012

• Venue

  Water resources management

• Publication date

  2012-05-30

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11269-012-0076-3
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