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Between ruanas and frailejones: the challenge of locating the páramo ecosystem
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The microscopic universe of pollination is a real melodrama.
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Wings, songs and colors, and the rediscovery of women in ornithology
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Of Colombia's 165 species of hummingbirds, one is exhibited in the Institute's bird collection Humboldt.

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