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Expanded from an address for the Ecological Society of America on the theme “Grasslands in our National Life” at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York City, December, 1956.

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Dyksterhuis, E.J. Ecological principles in range evaluation. Bot. Rev 24, 253–272 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02872569

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