Ecologically informed engineering reduces loss of intertidal biodiversity on artificial shorelines.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Environmental Science and Technology

• Publication date

  2011-09-08

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1021/es201924bPMID 21875080
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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