Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Seedling bank – watershed 1 and watershed 6 (2018)
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The understory layer is complex and includes groups of stems with distinctly different chances of survival and recruitment to the sapling size class. We explored how calcium amendment has- Publisher:
- Environmental Data Initiative
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- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10316989
- Award ID(s):
- 1637685
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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