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Main Authors: FO Roque, EA Guimarães, MC Ribeiro, SC Escarpinati, MT Suriano, T Siqueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842014000400991&lng=en&tlng=en