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Caves as a Winter Refuge by a Neotropical Harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones)

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Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the Intervales State Park staff for all the helpfulness, to M. O. M. Chelini, M. C. C. da Inês, R. L. Pinto, M. J. Chelini, M. Sobral, B. de Medeiros, S. Outeda- Jorge, H. Yamaguti, and A. Baceti for helping with the fieldwork, to G. Requena, G. Machado, R. Munguya-Steiner and B. Buzatto for great suggestions on the manuscript, and H. Dingle, T. Novak, A. Pérez-González, and E. Trajano for answering our questions about migration. This study was supported by FAPESP (04/04290-4 - MCC, 00/04686-4 - PG) and CNPq (301839/2004-2 - PG).

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  1. Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, nº 321, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, CEP 05508-090, Brazil

    Marie-Claire Chelini

  2. Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Arlindo Béttio, 1000, Ermelino Matarazzo, São Paulo, SP, CEP 03828-000, Brazil

    Rodrigo H. Willemart

  3. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, nº 321, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, CEP 05508-090, Brazil

    Pedro Gnaspini

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Chelini, MC., Willemart, R.H. & Gnaspini, P. Caves as a Winter Refuge by a Neotropical Harvestman (Arachnida, Opiliones). J Insect Behav 24, 393–398 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10905-011-9264-x

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