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Delineation of estuarine management units: Evaluation of an automatic procedure

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Bação, F., Caeiro, S., Painho, M., Goovaerts, P., Costa, M.H. (2005). Delineation of estuarine management units: Evaluation of an automatic procedure. In: Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26535-X_36

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