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Acknowledgments 



We would like to thank Jeff Laake for valuable ad- 

 vice and fruitful discussions. Judith Zeh, Jay Barlow, 

 Phil Clapham, and two anonymous reviewers pro- 

 vided helpful suggestions for the improvement of the 

 paper. This work was supported by the Direccion 

 General de Investigacion Cientifica y Superacion 

 Academica (DGICSA), C88-01-0414 (1988-90), 

 Earthwatch (1988-90), and the Consejo Nacional de 

 Ciencia y Tecnologia, CONACyT (1991-92). We 

 worked under the permits of the Institute Nacional 

 de Ecologia, SEDUE, SEMARNAP. 



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