Stable isotope analysis of termite food habits in East African grasslands

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  1983-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/BF00388065PMID 25024140
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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