Bats Limit Insects in a Neotropical Agroforestry System

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2008-04-04

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.1152944PMID 18388285
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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