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Functional feeding groups as a taxonomic surrogate for a grassland arthropod assemblage

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Buschke, Falko T., Seaman, Maitland T. (2011): Functional feeding groups as a taxonomic surrogate for a grassland arthropod assemblage. African Invertebrates 52 (1): 590, DOI: 10.5733/afin.052.0219, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.052.0219

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