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Increasing forest biodiversity could inhibit pine beetle plague

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Posted in Bits of Ecology | Tagged biodiversity, boreal forest, forestry, forests, Journal of Integrated Pest Management, Oregon State University, pine beetles, plague, plagues

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