Comparative Rates of Western Juniper Afforestation in South-Central Oregon and the Role of Anthropogenic DisturbanceFootnote∗

∗This study was funded by the National Science Foundation Grant ♯SBR-9809245, and by an Appalachian State University Research Council Grant. We thank Harry Blount, Stacy Carnine, Joel Davis, Betsy Herrmann, Kimberly Eldridge, Allison Miller, Paul Mitchell, Andrew Paul, and Mark Pelfrey for field and/or laboratory assistance. We also thank Chris Larson for image analysis, Jeffery McMichael of the Georgia State University Cartography Laboratory for production of Figures 1 and 5, and Truman Hartshorne and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.

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