The seemingly unpredictable ‘boom and bust’ of insect-pest populations will be better understood with the advent of a deceptively simple model combining field and laboratory data with earlier theories.
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Stone, L. A three-player solution. Nature 430, 299–300 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/430299a
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