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Beyond Historic Baselines: Restoring Bolson Tortoises to Pleistocene Range

Joe Truett and Mike Phillips
Ecological Restoration, June 2009, 27 (2) 144-151; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.27.2.144
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