Ecological factors associated with pre-dispersal predation of fig seeds and wasps by fig-specialist lepidopteran larvae
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Figs and fig wasps
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Oecologica
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1146-609X
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2018.03.001