An experimental manipulation of vegetation structure: Consequences for desert spiders

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-216

  Brandt, Yoni ^a,b   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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