Ballooning dispersal in arthropod taxa: conditions at take-off

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2007-06-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0109PMID 17389214PMCID PMC2464704
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