Effect of Lizards on Spider Populations: Manipulative Reconstruction of a Natural Experiment

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1987-05-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.236.4804.949PMID 17812750
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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