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Winifred E. Brenchley, Katherine Warington, The Weed Seed Population of Arable Soil: III. The Re-Establishment of Weed Species after Reduction by Fallowing, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Aug., 1936), pp. 479-501
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