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MAKING use, with only slight modifications, of the methods elaborated by Dr. Hingston and the staff of the University of Oxford expedition to British Guiana, we were able during the summer of 1945 to make a preliminary survey of the canopy of the rain-forest of the "Réserve forestière du Banco" near Abidjan (Ivory Coast). We built, at 150 ft. from the ground, an observation platform from which we could collect continuously in the foliage of the canopy, either directly or with light-traps. On this platform we passed numerous days and a number of whole nights.
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PAULIAN, R. Preliminary Survey of the West African Rain-Forest Canopy. Nature 157, 877 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157877b0
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