Biological control and sustainable food production

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-02-27

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2007.2182PMID 17827110PMCID PMC2610108
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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