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Optimal seeding depth of five forb species from the Great Basin

Jennifer K Rawlins, Val J Anderson, Robert Johnson and Thomas Krebs
Native Plants Journal, March 2009, 10 (1) 32-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/NPJ.2009.10.1.32
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