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Plant Communities of the Midwest: Classification in an Ecological ...
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Michigan Academician
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January 1, 2002
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2002 Michigan Academy of Science Arts & Letters. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Plant Communities of the Midwest: Classification in an Ecological Context. Edited by Don Faber-Langendoen. Association for Biodiversity Information, Arlington, Virginia, 2001. iv + 61 pp. Spiral bound paperback. Includes CD with 705-page Appendix. $20.00 (plus $5.00 shipping and handling). ISB 0-9711053-0-8.
The Nature Conservancy was born in science, sired by Victor E. Shelford out of the Ecological Society of America. The scientific connection had grown tenuous by the 1960s, and the organization wisely hired a full-time science advisor, Robert Jenkins. One of his most important initiatives was a series of inventories of natural features, eventually one in every state, ...
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