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The Effect of Floristic Composition on Bird Communities in a Set of Four Grassland Reconstruction Types

Jeff Port and Shawn Schottler
Ecological Restoration, June 2017, 35 (2) 112-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.35.2.112
Jeff Port
(corresponding author), Department of Biological Sciences, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN 55112, .
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Saint Croix Watershed Research Station, 16910 152nd ST North, Marine on Saint Croix, MN 55047.
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