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Research of the station focuses on various fields of conservation, tropical ecology and behaviour, e.g. ecophysiology, chemical and evolutionary ecology. In its first 2 decades before the civil war over 20 international research institutions conducted projects at the station with over 100
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scientists contributing to the over 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Far more students participated in field courses, collecting data for more than 40 diploma, masters, bachelors and Ph.D. theses.
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142:Karl Eduard Linsenmair
563:Comoe Researchstation
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230:University of Rostock
203:Research Cooperations
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