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Runoff Water Quality, Landuse and Environmental Impacts on the Bellairs Fringing Reef, Barbados

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Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Coastal Ecosystem Assessment and Management

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Tosic, M., Bonnell, R.B., Dutilleul, P., Oxenford, H.A. (2009). Runoff Water Quality, Landuse and Environmental Impacts on the Bellairs Fringing Reef, Barbados. In: Yang, X. (eds) Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Coastal Ecosystem Assessment and Management. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88183-4_22

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