Acknowledgments
We thank Jim Sanderson, Götz Schroth, Susan Laurance, and an anonymous
reviewer for commenting on a draft of this chapter. The NASA-LBA pro-
gram, A. W. Mellon Foundation, and Smithsonian Tropical Research Insti-
tute provided support. This is publication number 376 in the BDFFP tech-
nical series.
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