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Research Articles

An Integrated Approach for Determining the Anthropogenic Stress Responsible for Degradation of a Ramsar Site – Wular Lake in Kashmir, India

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Pages 407-434 | Received 21 Oct 2021, Accepted 21 Jan 2022, Published online: 08 Mar 2022

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