Documenting bee decline or squandering scarce resources.
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چکیده
V. J. Tepedino,∗ ¶ Susan Durham,† Sydney A. Cameron,‡ and Karen Goodell§ ∗Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5305, U.S.A. †Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5205, U.S.A. ‡Department of Entomology and Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (PEEC), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. §Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Newark, OH 43055, U.S.A.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
دوره 29 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015