The Natural Control of Animal Populations

1949/05/01 by M. E. Solomon · 1,549 citations
Environmental Science · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Archaeology #Biology #Ecology #Geography #Natural (archaeology) #Zoology

paper · doi:10.2307/1578

published in Journal of Animal Ecology 18(1), 1 (Wiley)

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