Pandora's Box Contained Bait : The Global Problem of Introduced Earthworms

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

• Publication date

  2008-10-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.ECOLSYS.39.110707.173426
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