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Recovery of dung beetle biodiversity and traits in a regenerating rainforest: a case study from Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula

Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2021
Dung beetles are frequently used to assess tropical biodiversity patterns and recovery in human‐modified forests. We conducted a comprehensive dung beetle survey (coprophagous and necrophagous communities) within five habitat types, across a land‐use ...
A. Whitworth, C. Beirne, Eleanor Flatt, Graden Z. L. Froese, C. Nuñez, A. Forsyth   +5 more
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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, V. C. Giménez Gómez, J. Verdú, F. Casanoves, M. Zunino   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

First report on dung beetles in intra-Amazonian savannahs in Roraima, Brazil [PDF]

, 2016
This is the first study to address the dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) diversity in intra-Amazonian savannahs in the state of Roraima, Brazil.
ABOT AR, ALMEIDA S, ANDRADE RB, AUDINO LD, BARBOSA RI, BARBOSA RI, BARBOSA RI, BICKNELL JE, BOILLY O, BOITO GT, BRÜHL C, CANTIL LF, CARPIO C, CAVALCANTE CO, COPOBIANCO JP, COSTA CMQ, COSTA CMQ, COSTA FC, DAMBORSKY MP, DURÃES R, EDMONDS WD, ENDRES AA, ESCOBAR F, ESCOBAR F, FABRICIUS JC, FALQUETO SA, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, FERREIRA, L V, FERRER-PARIS JR, FILGUEIRAS BKC, Filipe M. França, FLECHTMANN CAH, FORTI LC, GILL BD, GRIES R, GÁMEZ J, GÁMEZ J, GÉNIER F, HALFFTER G, HALFFTER G, HALFFTER G, HALFFTER G, HERNANDÉZ MIM, HERTEL F, HUBBER O, Julio Louzada, JUNK WJ, KORASAKI V, KRIŠTOFĺK J, LARSEN TH, LIMA MGA, LOPES PP, LOUZADA J, LOUZADA JNC, LOUZADA JNC, LOZANO C, LUEDERWALDT H, MATAVELLI RA, MEDINA AM, MEDRI ĺM, MENESES MENS, MILHOMEM MS, NICHOLS E, NORIEGA JA, NOVELO ER, NUNES RV, PACHECO TL, PADILLA-GIL DN, PRANCE GT, PUKER A, RIBEIRO JELS, RODRIGUES SR, ROSA TA, SALOMÃO RP, SANAIOTTI TM, SANAIOTTI TM, SANTOS W, SARMIENTO G, SCHEFFLER PY, SCHIFFLER G, SCHMITT T, SILVA FA.B, SILVA FAB, SILVA P, SILVA PG, SILVA PG, SILVA RJ, SILVA RJ, SILVA RJ, SLAY ME, SOLĺS C, SÁNCHEZ-HUERTA JL, TARASOV SI, Vanesca Korasaki, VANZOLINI PE, VAZ-DE-MELLO FZ, VAZ-DE-MELLO FZ, VAZ-DE-MELLO FZ, VAZ-DE-MELLO FZ, VAZ-DE-MELLO FZ, VIDAURRE T, VIEGAS G, VIEIRA L, VIEIRA L, VILLALOBOS FJ   +104 more
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The dung beetle dance: an orientation behaviour? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
An interesting feature of dung beetle behaviour is that once they have formed a piece of dung into a ball, they roll it along a straight path away from the dung pile.
Emily Baird, Marcus J Byrne, Jochen Smolka, Eric J Warrant, Marie Dacke   +4 more
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Tropical forest dung beetle-mammal dung interaction networks remain similar across an environmental disturbance gradient.

Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021
Conservation outcomes could be greatly enhanced if strategies addressing anthropogenic land-use change considered the impacts of these changes on entire communities as well as on individual species.
Li Yuen Chiew, Talya D. Hackett, J. Brodie, Shu Woan Teoh, D. Burslem, Glen Reynolds, Nicolas J. Deere, C. Vairappan, E. Slade   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A ‘metaphising’ dung beetle [PDF]

EMBO reports, 2010
Humans and beetles both have a species‐specificUmweltcircumscribed by their sensory equipment. However, Ladislav Kováč argues that humans, unlike beetles, have invented scientific instruments that are able to reach beyond the conceptual borders of ourUmwelt.
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Quantifying responses of dung beetles to fire disturbance in tropical forests:the importance of trapping method and seasonality [PDF]

, 2011
Understanding how biodiversity responds to environmental changes is essential to provide the evidence-base that underpins conservation initiatives. The present study provides a standardized comparison between unbaited flight intercept traps (FIT) and ...
Barlow, Jos, Cochrane, Mark A., de Andrade, Rafael Barreto, Louzada, Julio, Silveira, Juliana M., Souza, Mateus, Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Zagury   +6 more
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Effects of Land-Use Change on the Community Structure of the Dung Beetle (Scarabaeinae) in an Altered Ecosystem in Southern Ecuador

Insects, 2021
Simple Summary This study analyzed the abundance and diversity of dung beetle communities at several disturbed sites in a tropical dry forest ecosystem in southern Ecuador.
Vinicio Carrión-Paladines, A. Fries, Andrés Muñoz, E. Castillo, R. García-Ruiz, D. Marín-Armijos   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dung beetle assemblages, dung removal and secondary seed dispersal: data from a large-scale, multi-site experiment in the Western Palaearctic

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2018
By manipulating faeces during feeding and breeding, dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) fulfil important ecosystem functions in terrestrial ecosystems throughout the world.
Tanja Milotić, Christophe Baltzinger, Carsten Eichberg, Amy E. Eycott, Marco Heurich, Jörg Müller, Jorge A. Noriega, Rosa Menendez, Jutta Stadler, Réka Ádám, Tessa Bargmann, Isabelle Bilger, Jörn Buse, Joaquín Calatayud, Constantin Ciubuc, Gergely Boros, Marie Hauso, Pierre Jay-Robert, Märt Kruus, Enno Merivee, Geoffrey Miessen, Anne Must, Elham Omidzadeh Ardali, Elena Preda, Iraj Rahimi, Dirk Rohwedder, Rob Rose, Eleanor M. Slade, László Somay, Pejman Tahmasebi, Stefano Ziani, Maurice Hoffmann   +31 more
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Effects of large herbivores on grassland arthropod diversity [PDF]

, 2015
Both arthropods and large grazing herbivores are important components and drivers of biodiversity in grassland ecosystems, but a synthesis of how arthropod diversity is affected by large herbivores has been largely missing. To fill this gap, we conducted
Olff, H, van der Plas, F, van Klink, Roel, van Noordwijk, Toos, WallisDeVries, MF   +4 more
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