A CASE FOR USING LITTER BREAKDOWN TO ASSESS FUNCTIONAL STREAM INTEGRITY

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  2002

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  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2002-04-01

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  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0498:ACFULB]2.0.CO;2
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