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Ecology of the Swampy Relic Forests of Kathalekan from Central Western Ghats, India
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Chandran MDS1, Rao GR2, Gururaja KV3, Ramachandra TV4,*
Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
E mail: 1mds@ces.iisc.ernet.in, 2grrao@ces.iisc.ernet.in, 3gururaj@ces.iisc.ernet.in, 4tvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in

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