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The Functional Response of Predators to Prey Density and its Role in Mimicry and Population Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. S. Holling
C. S. Holling*
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Forest Insect Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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The Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada , Volume 97 , Supplement S45 , 1965 , pp. 5 - 60
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Contribution No. 1126, Forest Entomology and Pathology Branch, Department of Forestry of Canada.

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