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Do Native Plants Support a Richer Lepidopteran Fauna than Alien Plants?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Denis F. Owen
Affiliation:
66 Scraptoft Lane, Leicester LE5 1HU, England, UK.

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1986

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