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Small Mammal Habitat Preferences in a Patchwork of Adjacent Reconstructed Grasslands Subject to Semiannual Burns

Teresa DeGolier, Jeff Port and Shawn P. Schottler
Ecological Restoration, December 2015, 33 (4) 388-394; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.33.4.388
Teresa DeGolier
Corresponding author, Bethel University, Department of Biological Sciences, St. Paul, MN 55112, .
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Bethel University, Department of Biological Sciences, St. Paul, MN 55112.
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Shawn P. Schottler
St. Croix Watershed Research Station, 16910 52nd St. N, Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047.
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