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Tree Growth Patterns, Mortality, and Colonization in a Restored Maple-Basswood Forest

Kathleen L. Shea and Sonja R. Helgeson
Ecological Restoration, December 2018, 36 (4) 295-305; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.36.4.295
Kathleen L. Shea
corresponding author, Department of Biology, St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057, .
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Department of Biology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
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