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Plant Community Response to the Decline of Diffuse Knapweed in a Colorado Grassland

R. T. Bush, T. R. Seastedt and D. Buckner
Ecological Restoration, September 2007, 25 (3) 169-174; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.25.3.169
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