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Climatic change, habitat modification and relative age of dung beetle taxa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Hydrophilidae, Histeridae, Staphylinidae) in the South-Western Cape [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Bibliography: leaves v. 1, 156-171.1. Two study sites near Pretoria in the Transvaal were located in a summer rainfall climatic area, type 113d (Walter & Lieth 1964), on deep and in both open woodland and grassland. 2.
Davis, Adrian Louis Victor
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Variation in Dung Removal Rates by Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in a Temperate, Dry Steppe Ecosystem

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
During their feeding process, dung beetles perform a series of ecosystem functions that provide valuable ecosystem services, such as soil fertilization, improvement of soil properties, plant growth enhancement, and biological pest control.
Purevdorj Jargalsaikhan   +4 more
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Mitigation of phosphorus, sediment and Escherichia coli losses in runoff from a dairy farm roadway

open access: yesIrish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research, 2020
Dairy cow deposits on farm roadways are a potential source of contaminants entering streams. Phosphorus (P), suspended sediment (SS) and Escherichia coli (E.
R.W. McDowell, K. Daly, O. Fenton
doaj   +1 more source

Ứng dụng dữ liệu ảnh vệ tinh SAR (Sentinel-1A) đa thời gian thành lập bản đồ hiện trạng sử dụng đất tỉnh Cà Mau

open access: yesTạp chí Khoa học Đại học Cần Thơ, 2022
Bản đồ hiện trạng sử dụng đất đóng vai trò quan trọng trong công tác kiểm kê và định hướng quy hoạch sử dụng đất đai. Tuy nhiên, các phương pháp xây dựng bản đồ hiện trạng sử dụng đất giải đoán từ ảnh vệ tinh trước đây thường sử dụng dữ liệu ảnh quang ...
Phạm Quốc Việt   +3 more
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Metagenomics reveals that dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) broadly feed on reptile dung. Did they also feed on that of dinosaurs?

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The origin of the dung-feeding habits in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) is debatable. According to traditional views, the evolution of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) and their feeding habits are largely attributed to mammal dung.
Fernando Lopes   +5 more
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Effects of Psidium guajava and Phyllanthus amarus extracts on digestive enzyme activity and growth of Pangasianodon hypophthalmus fingerlings under high-temperature stress

open access: yesCTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
The rise in water temperature by global warming is of high concern to aquaculturists. In this study, the effects of extracts-based diets on digestive enzymes, and growth performance in Pangasianodon hypophthalmus fingerlings under elevated temperatures ...
Ngoc Nhu Pham   +7 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Multiresistance of Bacteria to Veterinary Antibiotics in Dung and Manure Samples of Farm Animals [PDF]

open access: yesУчёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки, 2016
Antibiotics are used in animal husbandry for treating and preventing diseases and as growth stimulators. Being disposed in the environment with dung and manure, they contribute to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes.
N.V. Danilova   +2 more
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Dung-beetle networks

open access: yes, 2018
This folder contains datasets from studies on the distribution of dung beetle species across two or more types of dung (trophic networks). Each file is named by the reference.
Nico Blüthgen (4809636)   +3 more
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Microscopic fungi isolated from the Domica Cave system (Slovak Karst National Park, Slovakia). A review [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Speleology, 2009
A broad spectrum, total of 195 microfungal taxa, were isolated from various cave substrates (cave air, cave sediments, bat droppingsand/or guano, earthworm casts, isopods and diplopods faeces, mammalian dung, cadavers, vermiculations, insect bodies ...
Novakova Alena
doaj  

Males influence maternal effects that promote sexual selection : a quantitative genetic experiment with dung beetles Onthophagus taurus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
J.S.K. was funded by the Academy of Finland, L.W.S. by the Australian Research Council, J.H. by an Australian Postgraduate Award, and J.L.T. by a postdoctoral research fellowship from the University of Western Australia.Recently, doubt has been cast on ...
Simmons, LW   +3 more
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