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... The patterns at the landscape level, including the relative proportions of habitats, plant assemblages, life histories, and community dynamics, are characteristic of a coal or group of coals. These provide a "fingerprint" of a particular coal swamp, and more broadly of a time and geographic region.
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  • coal balls
  • life histories
  • mineral matter
  • relative proportions
  • ground cover

  • time scale
  • surface water
  • coal seam
  • landscape level
  • community dynamics

  • random sample


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