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F. I. Woodward, N. Jones, Growth Studies of Selected Plant Species with Well-Defined European Distributions: I. Field Observations and Computer Simulations on Plant Life Cycles at Two Altitudes, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Nov., 1984), pp. 1019-1030
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