Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Current Opinion in Insect Science

• Publication date

  2015-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cois.2015.05.008PMID 29588000
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