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Author: PETER D. MOORE
Department of Biology
King's College
London, U.K.
W.C. Johnson, T. Webb III, "The role of blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata L.) in the postglacial dispersal of fagaceous trees in eastern North America," Journal of Biogeography, 16, 561-71, November 1989. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg; Brown University, Providence, R.I.)
R.G. Fairbanks, "A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger ...
