The paradox of biological control revisited: Per capita non-linearities

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 618-621

  Åström, Mårten ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SELF-REGULATION;

EID: 1842413619     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545625     Document Type: Short Survey

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