Carabid taxocenes of an urban park in subtropical Brazil: II. Specific diversity and similarity (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae)Footnote∗

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

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