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Gary P. Shaffer, Charles E. Sasser, James G. Gosselink, Marcel Rejmanek, Vegetation Dynamics in the Emerging Atchafalaya Delta, Louisiana, USA, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 677-687
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