Associational Plant Defenses and the Maintenance of Species Diversity: Turning Competitors Into Accomplices

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1986-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/284593
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