When is a restoration successful? Results from a 45-year-old tallgrass prairie restoration

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 10-17

  Allison, Stuart K ^a  

^a KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 2442526195     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.20.1.10     Document Type: Article

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