Does vegetation prevent wave erosion of salt marsh edges?

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2009-06-23

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0901297106PMID 19509340PMCID PMC2694034
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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