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• APA style

  From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands. (2002). In UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. Retrieved 13:35, February 9, 2012 from http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands.

• MLA style

  "From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands." UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. 2002. UNEP/GRID-Arendal. 9 Feb 2012 <http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands>.

• MHRA style

  UNEP/GRID-Arendal, 'From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands', UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, 2002, <http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands> [Accessed 9 February 2012]

• Chicago style

  UNEP/GRID-Arendal, From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands (Accessed 9 February 2012)

• CBE/CSE style

  UNEP/GRID-Arendal. From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands [Internet]. UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library; 2002 [cited 2012 Feb 9]. Available from: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands.

• Bluebook style

  From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands, http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands (Last visited February 9, 2012).

• Bluebook: Harvard JOLT style

  See UNEP/GRID Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands, http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands (Optional description here) (as of Feb. 9, 2012, 12:35 UTC).

• AMA style

  UNEP/GRID-Arendal. From wetlands to dry lands: the destruction of the Mesopotamian marshlands. UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. 2002. Available at: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/from_wetlands_to_dry_lands_the_destruction_of_the_mesopotamian_marshlands. Accessed February 09, 2012.