Florida's Invaders: Exotic Pests
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all in the nation’s opinion-leading newspapers — the New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times. (The New York Times did mention it in a blog.) My network, National Public Radio, interviewed David O’Brochta from the University of Maryland’s Biotechnology Institute — who spoke about the work even though he wasn’t an author of the paper. The Associated Press wire service also produced a...
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عنوان ژورنال: EDIS
سال: 1969
ISSN: 2576-0009
DOI: 10.32473/edis-cr008-2003