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Understory Species Richness during Restoration of Wet Tropical Forest in Costa Rica

A. Carl Leopold and Jackeline Salazar
Ecological Restoration, March 2008, 26 (1) 22-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.26.1.22
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