Different bees, different needs: how nest-site requirements have shaped the decision-making processes in homeless honeybees ( Apis spp.)
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0010