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Tipping the Native-Exotic Balance: Succession in Restored Upland Prairies in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

Briana Christine Lindh
Ecological Restoration, March 2018, 36 (1) 28-40; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.36.1.28
Briana Christine Lindh
Department of Biology, Willamette University, Collins Science Center 305, 900 State Street, Salem, Oregon 97301, .
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