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Jon E. Keeley, Sterling C. Keeley, Energy Allocation Patterns of a Sprouting and a Nonsprouting Species of Arctostaphylos in the California Chaparral, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 98, No. 1 (Jul., 1977), pp. 1-10
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