Mechanisms underlying the effects of spiders on pest populations

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 308-316

  Sunderland, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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