Altering Rainfall Timing and Quantity in a Mesic Grassland Ecosystem: Design and Performance of Rainfall Manipulation Shelters

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  2000

• Venue

  Ecosystems

• Publication date

  2000-05-10

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s100210000028
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