Calculating light levels for savanna and woodland restorations: Solar pathfinder or computerized analysis of hemispherical photographs?

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 161-164

  Swenson, Steve ^a   Beilfuss, Rich ^b  

^a Aldo Leopold Foundation   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION   (United States)

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EID: 0040331952     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
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