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Does the Mean Individual Biomass (MIB) of carabids as a bioindicator of forest succession follow a logistic function? - Examples from Western German beech and Polish Scots pine forests

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Schreiner, Armin, Schwerk, Axel (2012): Does the Mean Individual Biomass (MIB) of carabids as a bioindicator of forest succession follow a logistic function? - Examples from Western German beech and Polish Scots pine forests. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 12 (1): 57-64, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12520285

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