Pollinator biodiversity and floral resource use in Ecballium elaterium (Cucurbitaceae), a Mediterranean endemic

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عنوان ژورنال: Apidologie

سال: 2003

ISSN: 0044-8435,1297-9678

DOI: 10.1051/apido:2002046