Butterflies in Winter
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1 Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany. Tel. +49-331-977-2480 Fax +49-331-977-2092 email: [email protected] 2 Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. 3 Current address: Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management AN...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1881
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/023364a0