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Origin and Diversification of Dung Beetles in Madagascar [PDF]
Insects, 2011 Madagascar has a rich fauna of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae) withalmost 300 species described to date. Like most other taxa in Madagascar, dung beetles exhibit an exceptionally high level of endemism (96% of the species).
Andreia Miraldo +2 more
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If Dung Beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Arose in Association with Dinosaurs, Did They Also Suffer a Mass Co-Extinction at the K-Pg Boundary? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The evolutionary success of beetles and numerous other terrestrial insects is generally attributed to co-radiation with flowering plants but most studies have focused on herbivorous or pollinating insects.
Nicole L Gunter +4 more
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Current Biology, 2019 Frank T. Krell and Allison R. Moon introduce dung beetles.
Frank-Thorsten, Krell, Allison R, Moon
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Nature's All-in-One: Multitasking Robots Inspired by Dung Beetles. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)Leung B, Gorb S, Manoonpong P.
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Effects of dung beetle activity on tropical forest plants
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dung beetles are recognized as providers of important ecosystem functions, most of which are derived from the removal of vertebrate dung from the soil surface. These insects occur in nearly all terrestrial biomes but are most diverse in the humid tropics.
Ellen Andresen +1 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 +4 more
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Current Biology, 2018 What do a burly rower, a backstroke swimmer and a hard-working South African dung beetle all have in common? The answer is: they all benefit from moving along a straight path, and do so moving backwards. This, however, is where the similarity ends. While the rower has solved this navigational challenge by handing the task of steering to the coxswain ...
Marie, Dacke, Basil, El Jundi
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The reproductive behavior of Neotropical dung beetles
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Dung beetles display complex reproductive behaviors involving sexual findings, sexual recognition, fighting for mates and food used for nesting, sperm competition, and parental care.
Carmen Huerta +6 more
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Forest habitat parameters influence abundance and diversity of cadaver-visiting dung beetles in Central Europe [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Dung beetles provide crucial ecosystem services and serve as model organisms for various behavioural, ecological and evolutionary studies. However, dung beetles have received little attention as consumers of large cadavers.
Christian von Hoermann +4 more
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Quantifying immediate and delayed effects of anthelmintic exposure on ecosystem functioning supported by a common dung beetle species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) support numerous ecosystem functions in livestock-grazed pastures. Exposure to veterinary anthelmintic residues in livestock dung can have lethal and sublethal effects on dung beetles, and can reduce rates of dung
Paul Manning +2 more
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