Building regional threat-based networks for estuaries in the Western United States.

Estuaries are ecologically and economically valuable and have been highly degraded from both land and sea. Estuarine habitats in the coastal zone are under pressure from a range of human activities. In the United States and elsewhere, very few conservation plans focused on estuaries are regional in...

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Main Authors: Matthew S Merrifield, Ellen Hines, Xiaohang Liu, Michael W Beck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3046153?pdf=render