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Annual Cover Crops Do Not Inhibit Early Growth of Perennial Grasses on a Disturbed Restoration Soil in the Northern Great Plains, USA

Erin K. Espeland and Lora B. Perkins
Ecological Restoration, March 2013, 31 (1) 69-78; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.31.1.69
Erin K. Espeland
Erin K. Espeland (corresponding author), Pest Management Research Unit, USDAARS NPARL, 1500 N Central Avenue, Sidney, MT 59270,
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Lora B. Perkins
Lora B. Perkins, Department of Natural Resource Management, Box 2140B South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007
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