Bird Predation on Forest Insects: An Exclosure Experiment

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• Publication year

  1979

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1979-10-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.206.4417.462PMID 17809372
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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