Spider competition in structurally simple ecosystems

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 343-350

  Marshall, Samuel D ^a,b   Rypstra, Ann L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HIRAM COLLEGE   (United States)

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