The global stock of domesticated honey bees is growing slower than agricultural demand for pollination.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2009-06-09

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.071PMID 19427214
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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