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Title: Multiple States in River and Lake Ecosystems.

Authors: Dent, C. L., G. S. Cumming, and S. R. Carpenter.

Citation: Dent, C. L., G. S. Cumming, and S. R. Carpenter. 2002. Multiple States in River and Lake Ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 357, no. 1421: 635-45.

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