Vegetation controls vary across space and spatial scale in a historic grasslandforest biome boundary
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N. P. Danz ([email protected]), Dept of Natural Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin-Superior, Belknap and Catlin, Superior, WI 54880, USA, and Graduate Program in Natural Resources Science and Management, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. P. B. Reich and L. E. Frelich, Dept of Forest Resources, Univ. of Minnesota, 115 Green Hall, 1530 Cleveland Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 6112, USA. G. J. Niemi, Natural Resources Research Inst. and Dept of Biology, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth, 5013 Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth, MN 55811, USA.
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