Structure and function in forest edges;Estructura y función en bordes de bosques

Ecosistemas

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-77

  Lopez Barrera F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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