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Chapter Six - Building resilience into agricultural pollination using wild pollinators

from Part I - Biodiversity, ecosystem services and resilience in agricultural systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2019

Sarah M. Gardner
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GardnerLoboAssociates
Stephen J. Ramsden
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University of Nottingham
Rosemary S. Hails
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The National Trust
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Agricultural Resilience
Perspectives from Ecology and Economics
, pp. 109 - 134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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