Food web interactions and modeling

Biodiversity in Agricultural Production Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 385-398

  Moore, John C ^a   Simpson, Rodney T ^a   McCann, Kevin S ^b   De Ruiter, Peter C ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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