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Short-Term Response of Vegetation and the Riparian Bird Community to Dam Removal on the Rogue River, Oregon

Jaime L. Stephens
Ecological Restoration, December 2017, 35 (4) 328-340; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.35.4.328
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Klamath Bird Observatory, PO Box 758, Ashland, Oregon, .
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