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- 1Department of Environmental Sciences, Section of Conservation Biology, University of Basel, CH–4056 Basel, Switzerland
- 2Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- ↵*Correspondence: martin.nyffeler{at}unibas.ch (M.N.); Dries.Bonte{at}UGent.be (D.B.)
Posted March 05, 2020.
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