A failed invasion? Commercially introduced pollinators in Southern France

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 41, Number 1, January-February 2010


Page(s)		1 - 13
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2009044
Published online		04 August 2009

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