How Dams Vary and Why It Matters for the Emerging Science of Dam Removal

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  2002

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  2002-08-01

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  Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0659:HDVAWI]2.0.CO;2
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