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Effects of Social-Ecological Scale Mismatches on Estuary Restoration at the Project and Landscape Level in Puget Sound, USA

Jesse S. Sayles
Ecological Restoration, March 2018, 36 (1) 62-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.36.1.62

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