“…These include studies conducted in island habitats (Early & Goff, 1986;Tullis & Goff, 1987;Hewadikaram & Goff, 1991;Richards & Goff, 1997;Avila & Goff, 1998;Shalaby et al, 2000), tropical continental habitats (Cornaby, 1974;Coe, 1978;Jiron & Cartin, 1981;Braack, 1987) and temperate continental habitats (Bornemissza, 1957;Reed, 1958;Payne, 1965;Rodriguez & Bass, 1983;Anderson & Van Laerhoven, 1996). The eastern montane forests of the Chachapoya region in which the site of La Petaca is located (approx.…”