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Integrated Restoration of Small Watershed in Karst Regions of Southwest China

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This research was supported by the Project (2011BAC09B08-04) of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, and the State Scholarship Fund of China (2011601220). The paper was completed also with support from the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, USA. The authors would like to thank Robert Chen and Mark Becker of CIESIN, and Bo Söderström of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for their constructive suggestions and comments, which are very useful for improving this paper. The authors also thank Elisabeth Sydor of CIESIN for her editing assistance.

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Chen, R., Ye, C., Cai, Y. et al. Integrated Restoration of Small Watershed in Karst Regions of Southwest China. AMBIO 41, 907–912 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-012-0296-z

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