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Comparative study of the seed bank: Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA

• HF-ID: HF1991-11
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Backus, G.S.
• Date: 1991
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), South Hadley MA
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: disturbance, succession, soil
• Abstract:
  • This study focuses on the seed banks of four different sites, one at Mount Holyoke College and three at the Harvard Forest to answer the question: "Does the seed bank differ significantly from one forest to another and how?"

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  • Research file: HF 1991-38 Tom Swamp pulldown and old-growth hemispherical canopy photographs, 1991

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