Pollinator biodiversity and floral resource use in Ecballium elaterium (Cucurbitaceae), a Mediterranean endemic

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 34, Number 1, January-February 2003


Page(s)		29 - 42
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2002046

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