Mechanisms of Primary Succession: Insights Resulting from the Eruption of Mount St Helens

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 24, Issue C, 1993, Pages 1-66

  Del Moral, R ^a   Bliss, L C ^a  

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EID: 77956828379     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(08)60040-9     Document Type: Article

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