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

Wildlife Responses to Urbanization: Patterns of Diversity and Community Structure in Built Environments

“…7.1c) have been used to infer aspects of competition for and partitioning of resources (Magurran 2004). Communities in urban areas often exhibit a geometric dominance-diversity curve, a steep and right-truncated indicator of exaggerated dominance in relatively depauperate assemblages that are typically under greater abiotic than biotic control (e.g., Diefenbach and Becker 1992;Yang et al 2011).…”

Effects of urbanization on Neotropical wasp and bee assemblages in a Brazilian metropolis

“…Despite the ubiquity of insects, there are few studies especially concerned with the effects of urbanization on non-pest species, particularly in the Neotropical region (Laroca et al, 1982;Davis, 1982;Ruszczyk 1986aRuszczyk ,b,c,d, 1996Diefenbach and Becker, 1992;McIntyre, 2000). Earlier studies found a relatively high insect diversity in some cities (e.g.…”