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Martin E. Gurtz, Cathy M. Tate, Hydrologic Influences on Leaf Decomposition in a Channel and Adjacent Bank of a Gallery Forest Stream, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 120, No. 1 (Jul., 1988), pp. 11-21
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