Having It Both Ways? Land Use Change in a U.S. Midwestern Agricultural EcoregionFootnote

^*The authors wish to thank Ryan Reker and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on our article that helped make it better. Mr. Auch would like to thank the U.S. Geological Survey's National Land Change Assessment project and Climate and Land Use Change Research and Development program for support of this research.

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