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J. B. Kirkpatrick, C. F. Hutchinson, The Environmental Relationships of Californian Coastal Sage Scrub and Some of its Component Communities and Species, Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 23-38
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