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Reconstructing Vegetation Past: Pre-Euro-American Vegetation for the Midwest Driftless Area, USA

Monika E. Shea, Lisa A. Schulte and Brian J. Palik
Ecological Restoration, December 2014, 32 (4) 417-433; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.32.4.417
Monika E. Shea
Monika E. Shea (corresponding author), Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, .
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Lisa A. Schulte
Lisa A. Schulte, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
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Brian J. Palik
Brian J. Palik, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN.
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