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Long-term Herbivore Exclusion for Recovery of Buckbrush (Ceanothus fendleri ) Populations During Restoration of Ponderosa Pine Forests in Northern Arizona

David W Huffman, Judith D. Springer and W. Walker Chancellor
Ecological Restoration, September 2015, 33 (3) 274-281; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.33.3.274
David W Huffman
Corresponding author, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 15017, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5017, .
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Judith D. Springer
Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 15017, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5017.
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W. Walker Chancellor
Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 15017, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5017.
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