The conceptual and practical implications of interpreting diet breadth mechanistically in generalist predatory insects

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• Publication year

  2012

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  Biological Journal of The Linnean Society

• Publication date

  2012-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2012.01991.X
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