Sentenced without trial: Reviling and revamping the resource dispersion hypothesis

Oikos

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 433-440

  Johnson, Dominic D P ^a   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0037837275     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12697.x     Document Type: Note

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