Insect conservation in agricultural landscapes

Insect Conservation Biology: Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 23rd Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 383-404

  Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Tylianakis, Jason M ^a,b   Wade, Mark R ^c   Wratten, Steve D ^c   Bengtsson, Janne ^d   Kleijn, David ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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