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Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids

Michal Segoli1, Miriam Kishinevsky2, Jeffrey A Harvey3

  • 1The Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, SIDEER, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, 8499000 Israel.

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