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TROPICALFORESTCOMMUNITY

ECOLOGY

Editors

Walter P. Carson

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Biological Sciences

Pittsburgh, PA

USA

Stefan A. Schnitzer

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Department of Biological Sciences

Milwaukee, WI

USA

and

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa

Republic of Panama