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National parks in the history of science : plant succession

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posted on 2023-08-04, 09:55 authored by Robert Boyd

In the 1890s the dunes now protected as Indiana Dunes National Park hosted the first research on plant succession. That research helped establish ecology as a science, made succession an enduring concept, and explains why you mow your lawn.

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National Park Service

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English

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:94896

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