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Lars Markesteijn1, Lourens Poorter, Horacio Paz

  • 1Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group Resource Ecology Group, Centre for Ecosystem Studies, Wageningen University (WU), P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands. markeste@uwm.edu

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