Artificial light at night as a new threat to pollination

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2017-08-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature23288PMID 28783730
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