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THE PULSES OF LIFE

M D Subash Chandran

Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560012.
subhashc@iisc.ac.in; mdschandr@yahoo.com

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