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Spanning the Science-Practice Divide: Why Restoration Scientists Need to be More Involved with Practice

Sara Jo M. Dickens and Katharine N. Suding
Ecological Restoration, June 2013, 31 (2) 134-140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.31.2.134
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