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Ilkka Hanski1, Otso Ovaskainen

  • 1Department of Ecology and Systematics, Metapopulation Research Group, Division of Population Biology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 65, Viikinkaari 1, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland. ilkka.hanski@helsinki.fi

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