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Five Decades of Wetland Soil Development of a Constructed Tidal Salt Marsh, North Carolina, USA

Aaron Noll, Courtney Mobilian and Christopher Craft
Ecological Restoration, September 2019, 37 (3) 163-170; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.37.3.163
Aaron Noll
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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Courtney Mobilian
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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Christopher Craft
(corresponding author), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA,
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