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Taking advantage of opportunistically collected historical occurrence data to detect responses to climate change: The case of temperature and Iberian dung beetles. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2023
A novel approach for taking advantage of historical occurrence data to detect adaptive responses to climate change is presented. Our findings suggest that approximately half of the Iberian dung beetle species may experience negative effects from temperature increases and that the spatial response will be the most frequent one.
Lobo JM, Mingarro M, Godefroid M, García-Roselló E.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mitochondrial Genome Comparison and Phylogenetic Analysis of Four Species of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Dung beetles have important ecological and economical values; however, the molecular research of the taxonomic group is very limited. We sequenced mitochondrial genomes of four Scarabaeinae species, with sizes from 14,977 to 18,425 bp, and identified novel gene rearrangements.
Zhang H, He Q, Zhao Z, Zhang B, Zhou J, Wang C, Yi C, Zhao M.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Identifying Priority Habitats for Dung Beetle Conservation: Taxonomic and Functional Responses Across a Land-Use Disturbance Gradient. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Anthropogenic land‐use change and resource exploitation are driving declines in dung beetle communities, highlighting the need to identify priority habitats and species for conservation. This study assessed taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles across a land‐use disturbance gradient and different dung types using dung‐baited pitfall traps.
Hong SY, Oh M, Heo Y, Lee EJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Diet Outweighs Vertical Transmission in Shaping Dung Beetle Larval Gut Microbiomes. [PDF]

Mol Ecol
ABSTRACT The microbiome is central to host development and adaptation, yet the balance between vertical and environmental acquisition, and how hosts shape surrounding microbial communities, remains poorly understood. Dung beetles rely on microbial symbionts to extract nutrients from vertebrate dung, with part of their microbiome vertically inherited ...
Herrera MJ, Khanna A, Jones JA, Betancur-R R, Rohner PT.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

PENet: A phenotype encoding network for automatic extraction and representation of morphological discriminative features

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, Page 3035-3046, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Digitalized natural history collections serve as vital ecological and evolutionary research resources. Specimen retrieval based on morphological features allows for the rapid acquisition of similar specimens from these collections, aiding in maximizing the utilization of their resources and catering to the requirements of related research ...
Zhengyu Zhao, Yuanyuan Lu, Yijie Tong, Xin Chen, Ming Bai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconocimiento de los factores determinantes de la riqueza de especies: el caso de los Aphodiinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Aphodiidae) en la Península Ibérica

Graellsia, 2003
En el presente artículo se procedió a explorar las variables que explican la riqueza de especies de Aphodiinae (Aphodiidae, Scarabaeoidea) a escala peninsular ibérica partiendo únicamente de previos estudios faunísticos y haciendo uso de las técnicas ...
F. J. Cabrero-Sañudo, J. M. Lobo
doaj   +1 more source

Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 50, Issue 12, Page 2095-2108, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim Different hypothesis have been proposed to explain differences in species richness among islands. However, few studies have attempted to compare the explanatory power of multiple hypotheses using a large data set. Here, we analyse how different types of predictors (energetic/climatic, environmental heterogeneity, island biogeography and ...
Mattia Tonelli, Marco Dellacasa, Jorge M. Lobo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A transcriptome‐based phylogeny of Scarabaeoidea confirms the sister group relationship of dung beetles and phytophagous pleurostict scarabs (Coleoptera)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 672-686, October 2023., 2023
Phylogenetic analyses of > 4,000 genes of more than 50 species of Scarabaeoidea supports monophyly of Scarabaeidae and confirms sister group relationship of dung beetles and phytophagous pleurostict scarabs. Supermatrix‐based maximum likelihood and multispecies coalescent phylogenetic analyses confirm paraphyly of Melolonthinae. We consequently suggest
Lars Dietz, Matthias Seidel, Jonas Eberle, Bernhard Misof, Thaynara L. Pacheco, Lars Podsiadlowski, Sasanka Ranasinghe, Nicole L. Gunter, Oliver Niehuis, Christoph Mayer, Dirk Ahrens   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the transfer of the genus Mesydra Ponomarenko, 1977 from Hydrophilidae into Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera) [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2012
The holotype of the type species of monobasic Mesozoic genus Mesydra Ponomarenko, 1977, which was described as a member of the family Hydrophilidae from the Lower Cretaceous deposit’s Baissa in Transbaikalia is revised.
G.V. Nikolajev, A.А. Prokin
doaj   +1 more source

Arthropod abundances track soil fertility across a lowland tropical forest landscape. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
This study reveals strong, diverse associations between soil phosphorus and the abundances of understorey arthropods across a lowland tropical forest landscape. These patterns were not paralleled in an adjacent site‐level fertilisation experiment, raising the interesting possibility that arthropod–phosphorus associations could be mediated by spatial ...
Butler OM, Sanchez V, Simpson KJ, Windsor D.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources