Butterfly communities under threat

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2016-07-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.aaf8838PMID 27418487
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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