Nectar and pollination drops: how different are they?

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Annals of Botany

• Publication date

  2009-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/aob/mcp124PMID 19477895PMCID PMC2710891
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