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Agricultural Abandonment in a Wetland Area: Abandoned Ricefields in the Camargue, France — Can They Be of Value for Conservation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

François Mesléard
François Mesléard
Affiliation:
Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, F-13200 Arles, France.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , Winter 1994 , pp. 354 - 357
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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