Assisted natural recovery using a forest soil propagule bank in the Athabasca Oil Sands

Seeds: Biology, Development and Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 374-382

  Mackenzie, D D ^a   Naeth, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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