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Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 354072, 9 pages
Abundance and Diversity of Native Bumble Bees Associated with Agricultural Crops: The Willamette Valley Experience
Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, 3017 ALS, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Received 20 August 2009; Accepted 2 December 2009
Academic Editor: James C. Nieh
Copyright © 2010 Sujaya Rao and W. P. Stephen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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