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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the
U.S. Department of Energy, the Dutch Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture, and the
International Agricultural Center (the Netherlands). We wish to thank the organizers of
the symposium at the 2009 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the
editors for the opportunity to contribute to this volume.
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