Monitoring native prairie vegetation: The belt transect method

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 106-112

  Grant, Todd A ^a   Madden, Elizabeth M ^b   Murphy, Robert K ^c   Smith, Karen A ^c   Nenneman, Melvin P ^d  

^a J Clark Salyer Natl Wildl Refuge   (United States)

^b Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^d Valentine National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

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EID: 2442565689     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.22.2.106     Document Type: Review

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