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Monica B Emelko1, Micheal Stone2, Uldis Silins3

  • 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.

Global Change Biology
|August 28, 2015
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climate changecumulative watershedeffectseutrophicationland disturbancephosphorussedimenttreatabilitywildfire

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