Birds defend oil palms from herbivorous insects.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2008-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/07-1650.1PMID 18536244
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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