Artificial Night Lighting Reduces Firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) Occurrence in Sorocaba, Brazil
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Entomology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2331-1991,2331-2017
DOI: 10.4236/ae.2015.31004