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Seasonal Shifts in Diversity and Composition of a Tallgrass Prairie Restoration Have Implications for Sampling Time

Naomi Betson and Bryan Latimer Foster
Ecological Restoration, March 2023, 41 (1) 16-24; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.41.1.16
Naomi Betson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, .
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Bryan Latimer Foster
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
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