The influence of habitat structure on spider density in a no-till soybean agroecosystem

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 221-226

  Balfour, Robert Andrew ^a   Rypstra, Ann L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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