The reduction in soil water status and the cessation of sand movement are considered to be important factors in the decline of the A. ordosica community. The importance of allelopathy, and in particular autopathy, in preventing seedling growth of A. ordosica is also discussed.

The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted—perverted, rather—into monasteries and other monking receptacles.

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