Manipulative Field Experiments in Animal Ecology: Do they Promise More than they Can Deliver?

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 30, Issue C, 1999, Pages 299-338

  Raffaelli, D ^a   Moller, H ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2504(08)60020-3     Document Type: Article

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