A perimeter tracing method for estimating basal cover: Monitoring the endangered sentry milk-vetch at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-178

  Rowlands, Peter G ^a   Brian, Nancy J ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

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