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Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales
Article first published online: 12 DEC 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01962.x
© 2012 Society for Conservation Biology
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Lebuhn, G., Droege, S., Connor, E. F., Gemmill-Herren, B., Potts, S. G., Minckley, R. L., Griswold, T., Jean, R., Kula, E., Roubik, D. W., Cane, J., Wright, K. W., Frankie, G. and Parker, F. (2013), Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales. Conservation Biology, 27: 113–120. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01962.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 10 JAN 2013
- Article first published online: 12 DEC 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 14 JUL 2012
- Manuscript Received: 24 SEP 2011
Funded by
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Integrated Hardwoods Range Management Program
- Nature Conservancy through the Robert Johnson and Katherine Ordway Stewardship Endowments
- ALARM. Grant Number: GOCE-CT-2003–506675
- National Science Foundation. Grant Number: DEB 0418871
- MSM. Grant Number: 6215648902
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