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Marian E. Stover, P. L. Marks, Successional Vegetation on Abandoned Cultivated and Pastured Land in Tompkins County, New York, The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, Vol. 125, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1998), pp. 150-164
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