Seasonal and spatial species richness variation of dung beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae s. str.) in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil Variação sazonal e espacial da riqueza de espécies de besouros coprófagos (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae s. str.) em Mata Atlântica do sudeste do Brasil

The knowledge on Atlantic Forest scarab beetle fauna is quite limited. This biome is strongly degraded and these insects can be used as bioindicators since they are sensitive to forest destruction and show distinct organizational patterns in forest fragments or in areas that have been deteriorated b...

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Main Authors: Malva I. Medina Hernández, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia 2009-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262009000400010

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