Agroecology: Contributions towards a renewed ecological foundation for pest management

Perspectives in Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 431-468

  Nicholls, Clara Ines ^a   Altieri, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511752353.015     Document Type: Chapter

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