The regional abundance and size distribution of lakes and reservoirs in the United States and implications for estimates of global lake extent

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Limnology and Oceanography

• Publication date

  2012-03-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.4319/lo.2012.57.2.0597
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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