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Body mass of males with different capture frequencies. Box plots indicate 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles, dots indicate outliers, open circles with error bars and dashed line refer to estimated means and se, solid line represents the overall mean body mass of all males caught, numbers of males per class are given over the x-axis, letters indicate homogenous subgroups
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