Determinants of adult dragonfly assemblage patterns at new ponds in South Africa

Odonatologica

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-58

  Osborn, R ^a   Samways, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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