Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World's Large River Systems

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2005-04-15

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.1107887PMID 15831757
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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