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S. Kathleen Lyons, Michael R. Willig, Latitudinal Patterns of Range Size: Methodological Concerns and Empirical Evaluations for New World Bats and Marsupials, Oikos, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 568-580
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