Roger A. Beaver is a

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who has worked at University College of North Wales, Chiang Mai University, the

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and the

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. He has published several important papers on ''Nepenthes'' infauna, including "Fauna and food webs of pitcher plants in West Malaysia" (1979), "The communities living in ''Nepenthes'' pitcher plants: fauna and food webs" (1983), and "Geographical variation in food web structure in ''Nepenthes'' pitcher plants" (1985). The species '' Cryptoxilos beaveri'' was named in his honour.

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