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Biomass and productivity of the subalpine Pinus albicaulis — Vaccinium scoparium association in Montana, USA

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Idiotaxonomy follows that of Hitchcock & Cronquist (1973). There presently is no formal, Latinized syntaxonomical system for the Pacific N.W. of the USA.

The summer field work was funded by the Intermountain forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Forest Service, under Contract No. 12-11-204-12, Suppl. No. 33. Funds for computer analyses were generously provided by the Dept. of Biology, Montana State University, and S. Holland (University of California).

The authors thank J. V. Basile, J. Major, R. H. Rumely, the editors H. Lieth and R. H. Whittaker, and a reviewer for Vegetatio for their helpful comments.

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Forcella, F., Weaver, T. Biomass and productivity of the subalpine Pinus albicaulis — Vaccinium scoparium association in Montana, USA. Plant Ecol 35, 95–105 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02097219

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