Do flower mixtures with high functional diversity enhance aphid predators in wildflower strips?
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Do functional traits improve prediction of predation rates for a disparate group of aphid predators?
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Entomology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1210-5759,1802-8829
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2017.010