Evolution of agroecosystems: Biodiversity, origins, and differential development

Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 21-56

  Harris, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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