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Dung Beetle Assemblages Attracted to Cow and Horse Dung: The Importance of Mouthpart Traits, Body Size, and Nesting Behavior in the Community Assembly Process

Life, 2021
Dung beetles use excrement for feeding and reproductive purposes. Although they use a range of dung types, there have been several reports of dung beetles showing a preference for certain feces.
Mattia Tonelli, Victoria C. Giménez Gómez, José R. Verdú, Fernando Casanoves, Mario Zunino   +4 more
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Assessing the functional relationship between dung beetle traits and dung removal, burial, and seedling emergence.

Ecology, 2020
The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is often assessed through trait diversity. However, the relationship between traits and functions is typically assumed but seldom tested.
Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Joaquín Hortal, J. Noriega, F. Sánchez‐Piñero   +3 more
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Treatment of reindeer with ivermectin - effect on dung insect fauna

Rangifer, 1999
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug widely used in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus (L.)) in Fennoscandia and North America. Most of the ivermectin injected in the animal is excreted unchanged in the faeces. Several reports show that ivermectin in cattle dung
Arne C. Nilssen, Kjetil Åsbakk, Rolf Egil Haugerud, Willy Hemmingsen, Antti Oksanen   +4 more
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Biomass densification: Effect of cow dung on the physicochemical properties of wheat straw and rice husk based biomass pellets

Biomass & Bioenergy, 2019
This study investigates the potential of cow dung, an animal manure, as a binder to enhance the physicochemical properties of the base pellet (a mixture of wheat straw and rice husk).
Maira Iftikhar, A. Asghar, N. Ramzan, B. Sajjadi, Wei-yin Chen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Dung Beetles Steer Straight.

Annual Review of Entomology, 2020
Distant and predictable features in the environment make ideal compass cues to allow movement along a straight path. Ball-rolling dung beetles use a wide range of different signals in the day or night sky to steer themselves along a fixed bearing.
M. Dacke, E. Baird, Basil el Jundi, E. Warrant, M. Byrne   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Holy Dung: Comic Signs of Consubstantiality in Martin Luther Films

Religions, 2016
One problem with the religious sub-genre of Hagiographic films is that they frequently romanticize, sentimentalize, or idealize the lives of saints. Our purpose is to excavate three major film biopics on the life of Protestant reformer Martin Luther and ...
Terry Lindvall, Morgan Stroyeck
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Livestock faecal indicators for animal management, penning, foddering and dung use in early agricultural built environments in the Konya Plain, Central Anatolia

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020
Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations and activity within open areas and built environments.
M. Portillo, A. García-Suárez, W. Matthews   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variation in Dung Removal Rates by Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) in a Temperate, Dry Steppe Ecosystem

Diversity, 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, Gombo Altangerel, Tsedev Enkhchimeg, Ulykpan Aibek, Badamdorj Bayartogtokh   +4 more
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Mitigation of phosphorus, sediment and Escherichia coli losses in runoff from a dairy farm roadway

Irish 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
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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

Tạp 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, Võ Quốc Tuấn, Nguyễn Tấn Lợi, Phạm Văn Đệ   +3 more
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