How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Annals of Botany

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/aob/mcp076PMID 19339297PMCID PMC2701761
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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