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Alain Dejean, Ingrid Olmsted, Roy R. Snelling, Tree-Epiphyte-Ant Relationships in the Low Inundated Forest of Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Biotropica, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 57-70
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