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Brosset, Andre, Charles-Dominique, Pierre, Cockle, Anya, Cosson, Jean-Francois, Masson, Didier. 1996. Bat communities and deforestation in French Guiana. Can. J. Zool. 74: 1974-1982.

Brothers, Timothy S. 1993.Fragnentation and edge effects in Central Indiana old-growth forests. Natural Areas Journal 13(4): 268-274.

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Garcia-Raso, J. E. 1990. Study of a Crustacea Decapoda Taxocoenosis of Poisidonia oceanica beds from the southeast of Spain. Marine Ecology 11(4): 309-326.

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Gutierrez, D. and Menendez, R. 1995. Distribution and abundance of butterflies in a mountain area in the northern Iberian peninsula. Ecography 18: 209-216.

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Hornbach, Daniel J., Miller, Andrew C., Payne, Barry S. 1992. Species composition of the mussel assemblages in the upper Mississippi River. Malacological Review 25: 119-128.

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Hutto, R. L. 1995. Composition of bird communities following stand-replacement fires in northern Rocky Mountains (U.S.A.) conifer forests. Conservation Biology 9(5): 1041-1058.

Janzen, D. H. 1973. Sweep samples of tropical foliage insects: description of study sites, with data on species abundances and size distributions. Ecology 54 (3): 659-666.

Jefferson, Richard G. & Usher, Michael B. 1987. The seed bank in soils of disused chalk quarries in the Yorkshire Wolds, England: Implications for conservation management. Biological Conservation 42: 287-302.

Jenkins, R. A., Wade, K. R. and Pugh, E. 1984. Macroinvertebrate-habitat relationships in the river Teifi catchment and the significance to conservation. Freshwater Biology 14, 23-42.

Jennings, S., Brierly, A. S., Walker, J. W. 1994. The inshore fish assemblies of the Galapagos Archipelago. Biological Conservation. 70: 49-57.

Kapelle, M., Geuze, T., Leal, M. E., and Cleef, A. M. 1996. Successional age and forest structure in a Costa Rican upper montane Quercu forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12: 681- 698.

Kemp, William P. 1992. Temporal variation in rangeland grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) communities in the steppe region of Montana, USA. The Canadian Entomologist, 124: 437-450.

Kingston, Tigga, Akbar, Zubaid, Kunz, Thomas H. 2000. Species richness and rarity in an insectivorous bat community from Malaysia. (submitted)

Koen, J. H. and Crowe, T. M. 1987. animal-habitat relationships in the Knysna Forest, soputh Africa: discrimination between forest types by birds and invertebrates. Oecologia. 72: 414-42.

Krasnov, B, Shenbrot, G. 1996. Spatial structure of community of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Negev Highlands, Israel. Ecography. 19:139-152.

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Lundqvist, Lars and Brinck-Lindroth, Gunvor. 1990. Patgterns of coexistence: ectoparasites on small mammals in northern Fennoscandia. Holarctic Ecology. 13:39-49.

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Merrett, N. R., Haedrich, R. L., Gordon, J. D. M., Stehmann, M. 1991. Deep demersal fish assemblage structure in the Porcupine Seabight (eastern North Atlantic): results of single warp trawling at lower slope to abyssal soundings. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. 71: 359-373.

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Musil, C. F. and de Witt, D. M. 1990. Post-fire regeneration in a sand plain lowland fynbos community. S. Afr. J. Bot. 56: 167-184.

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