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S. L. Gulmon, H. A. Mooney, Spatial and Temporal Relationships Between Two Desert Shrubs, Atriplex Hymenelytra and Tidestromia Oblongifolia in Death Valley, California, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Nov., 1977), pp. 831-838
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