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The Functional Response of Invertebrate Predators to Prey Density

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. S. Holling*
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Forest Research Laboratory, Victoria, British Columbia
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1966

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Contribution No, 1177, Forest Entomology and Pathology Branch, Canada Department of Forestry, Ottawa.

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