Carabid taxocenes of an urban park in subtropical Brazil: I. Specific composition, seasonality and constancy (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae)Footnote∗

Excerpted from a MSc dissertation by the first author, Curso de Pós‐graduaçao em Ecologia, UFRGS.

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• Excerpted from a MSc dissertation by the first author, Curso de Pós‐graduaçao em Ecologia, UFRGS.
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