Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-10-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0405PMID 18595841PMCID PMC2603237
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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