The German bee monitoring project: a long term study to understand periodically high winter losses of honey bee colonies

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 41, Number 3, May-June 2010 Honey bee health


Page(s)		332 - 352
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido/2010014
Published online		07 April 2010

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