Diet and Trophic Structure in a Community of Fruit-eating Bats in Lacandon Forest, México
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Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue MC 5557, New York, NY 10027, USA (AGS) Instituto de Ecologı́a, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-275, México, Distrito Federal, México (OG, RAM) Present address of AGS: Unit of Biology and Physical Geography, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, British Columbia V1V 1V7, Canada
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