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Adapting Adaptive Management for Testing the Effectiveness of Stream Restoration: An Intensively Monitored Watershed Example

FISHERIES (2016)

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FISHERIES

Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 84-91

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

DOI: 10.1080/03632415.2015.1127806

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