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Environmental Review: Ecoregions: A Geographic Framework to Guide Risk Characterization and Ecosystem Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Sandra A. Bryce ,
James M. Omernik  and
David P. Larsen
Sandra A. Bryce*
Affiliation:
Dynamac Corporation, Corvallis, Oregon
James M. Omernik
Affiliation:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, Oregon
David P. Larsen
Affiliation:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, Oregon
*
Dynamac Corporation, U.S. EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division, 200 SW 35th St., Corvallis, OR 97333; (fax) 541-754-4338; (e-mail) [email protected]
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Environmental Practice , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 141 - 155
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