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Crow, T.R. (2006). Moving to the Big Picture: Applying Knowledge from Landscape Ecology to Managing U.S. National Forests. In: Perera, A.H., Buse, L.J., Crow, T.R. (eds) Forest Landscape Ecology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34280-1_7

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