Coupling unstable agents in biological control

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ong, Theresa Wei Ying ^a   Vandermeer, John H ^a  

^a Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CURRENCY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PEST CONTROL; PHILOSOPHY;

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; EXPECTATION; PREDATOR; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84944710322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6991     Document Type: Article

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