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Resilience and restoration of soft-bottom near-shore ecosystems

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for organising the Open Science Meeting held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on September 27–29, 2005. We are grateful to Jelle Ferwerda and Hans de Iongh for helping us to edit this special issue.

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  1. Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 AA, The Netherlands

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van Langevelde, F., Prins, H. Resilience and restoration of soft-bottom near-shore ecosystems. Hydrobiologia 591, 1–4 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-0779-2

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