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Planthoppers include some of the most devastating pests of major agricultural crops throughout the world. In the chihuahuan desert of southern new mexico, mesquite prosopis glandulosa occurs in a variety of landscape positions where water may accumulate to varying depths. We teased apart the relative roles of competition and plantsoil feedback in a greenhouse experiment with 30 common and rare alien and native species from nine plant families. Abebooks, an amazon company, offers millions of new, used, and outofprint books.
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