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Initial Transplant Size and Microsite Influence Transplant Survivorship and Growth of a Threatened Dune Thistle

Samniqueka J. Halsey, Timothy J. Bell and Marlin Bowles
Ecological Restoration, March 2017, 35 (1) 52-59; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.35.1.52
Samniqueka J. Halsey
(corresponding author), The Morton Arboretum, 4100 IL Route 53, Lisle, IL 60532. Current Address: Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61081, USA, .
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Timothy J. Bell
The Morton Arboretum, 4100 IL Route 53, Lisle, IL 6053; Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago State University, 9501 South King Drive, Chicago, IL 60628, USA.
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Marlin Bowles
The Morton Arboretum, 4100 IL Route 53, Lisle, IL 60532.
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