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Chemical relations and litter production of Picea mariana and Larix laricina stands on an alkaline peatland in Northern Minnesota

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Nomenclature of vascular plants follows Gleason & Cronquist (1963) and that of mosses follows Crum (1974).

We are grateful to Dr. E. Gorham, Univ. of Minnesota for a stimulating review of the manuscript. We extend our thanks to Drs. A.W.H. Damman, Univ. of Connecticut, D.L. Tilton, Univ. of Michigan, and K.T. Killingbeck, Kansas State Univ. for helpful suggestions; to Mr. A.L. Kollman, Univ. of North Dakota, for help with chemical and statistical analyses; to Drs. W.T. Barker, North Dakota State Univ., and G.B. Ownbey, Univ. of Minnesota, for help with vascular plant identification; to Dr. F. Bowers, Univ. of Tennessee, for identification of mosses; and to two unknown reviewers of this journal for useful comments.

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Bares, R.H., Wali, M.K. Chemical relations and litter production of Picea mariana and Larix laricina stands on an alkaline peatland in Northern Minnesota. Vegetatio 40, 79–94 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055837

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