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Acknowledgement

The project was funded by the USDA Forest Service cooperative agreements 12-CA-11420004-042 and 11-CA-11330129-092, the National Science Foundation grant DEB 1256968, the NIFA grant 2009-51181-05915, grant 214232/F20 from the Norwegian Research Council and in-kind contributions. We thank Rob Dunn for support in the methods-development phase and Paul Kendra and Chris Gibbard for the supply of specimens.

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