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Sustaining America's Aquatic Biodiversity - What Is Aquatic Biodiversity; Why Is it Important?

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420-520 (CNRE-77P)

Authors as Published

Authored by Louis A. Helfrich, Richard J. Neves, and James Parkhurst, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech

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Aquatic biodiversity is the rich and wonderful variety of plants and animals that live in watery habitats. This publication describes biodiversity and why it is important to ecosystem functions and to humans.


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Publication Date

December 18, 2019