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Published bimonthly—January, March, May, July, 279 Canadian bluejoint response to heavy grazing by William B. Collins, Earl F. September, November Becker, and Alison B. Collins Copyright 2001 by the Society for Range Plant Ecology Management 284 Restoring degraded riparian meadows: Biomass and species responses by David INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION is by membership in the Society for Range Management. W. Martin and Jeanne C. Chambers LIBRARY or other INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIP- 292 Drought and grazing III: Root dynamics and germinable seed bank by A.L. TIONS on a calendar year basis are $95.00 for the Hild, M.G. Karl, M.R. Haferkamp, and R.K. Heitschmidt United States postpaid and $112.00 for other coun- tries, postpaid. Payment from outside the United 299 Forage kochia seed germination response to storage time and temperature by States should be remitted in US dollars by interna- Stanley G. Kitchen and Stephen B. Monsen tional money order or draft on a New York bank. 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Para ries involving multiple steady states, and state-and-transition reflejar mas adecuadamente las dinámicas de los ecosistemas de processes have been postulated to more adequately reflect the pastizal se han postulado teorías alternativas que involucran dynamics of rangeland ecosystems.
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