The ecotron facility at silwood park: The value of "Big Bottle" experiments

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 665-669

  Lawton, John H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000060456     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265488     Document Type: Article

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