Trait-mediated indirect interactions, density-mediated indirect interactions, and direct interactions between mammalian and insect herbivores

Ecological Communities: Plant Mediation in Indirect Interaction Webs

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 104-123

  Gómez, José M ^a   González Megías, Adela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511542701.006     Document Type: Chapter

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