How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area

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  2014

• Venue

  Marine and Freshwater Research

• Publication date

  2014-10-16

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1071/MF14173
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