Historic disturbance regimes promote tree diversity only under low browsing regimes in eastern deciduous forest

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Ecological Monographs

• Publication date

  2013-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/11-2263.1
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