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Malcolm MacGarvin, John H. Lawton, Philip A. Heads, The Herbivorous Insect Communities of Open and Woodland Bracken: Observations, Experiments and Habitat Manipulations, Oikos, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Sep., 1986), pp. 135-148
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