Toward a trophic island biogeography reflections on the interface of island biogeography and food web ecology

The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 143-185

  Holt, Robert D ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

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