On being the right size: Different definitions of 'right'

Oikos

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 551-557

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030484604     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545899     Document Type: Review

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