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Honey Bees (Apis mellifera, L.) as Active Samplers of Airborne Particulate Matter

  • Ilaria Negri ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Negri, Christian Mavris

    * E-mail: ilarianegri@koineambiente.com

    Affiliation Koiné—Environmental Consulting S.n.c., Parma, Italy

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  • Christian Mavris ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Ilaria Negri, Christian Mavris

    Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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  • Gennaro Di Prisco,

    Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, Laboratorio di Entomologia E. Tremblay, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici (Napoli), Italy

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  • Emilio Caprio,

    Affiliation Dipartimento di Agraria, Laboratorio di Entomologia E. Tremblay, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici (Napoli), Italy

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  • Marco Pellecchia

    Affiliation Koiné—Environmental Consulting S.n.c., Parma, Italy

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Honey Bees (Apis mellifera, L.) as Active Samplers of Airborne Particulate Matter

  • Ilaria Negri, 
  • Christian Mavris, 
  • Gennaro Di Prisco, 
  • Emilio Caprio, 
  • Marco Pellecchia
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  • Published: July 6, 2015
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132491
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