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Performance and Phenotypic Variation of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Hybrids on Newly Reclaimed Mine Sites in Eastern Ohio, USA

Keith E. Gilland and Brian C. McCarthy
Ecological Restoration, December 2014, 32 (4) 379-387; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.32.4.379
Keith E. Gilland
Keith E. Gilland (corresponding author), Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, 315 Porter Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, .
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Brian C. McCarthy, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, 315 Porter Hall, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701.
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