The influence of feeding strategy on growth and rejection of herbage around dung pats and their decomposition [PDF]
, 2002 Fresh cattle dung from four farms with different feeding strategies was used to create artificial dung pats in a continuously grazed pasture in order to compare the rejection of herbage growing around the pats, the effect on undisturbed herbage growth ...
Bosker, W.T.E. +2 more
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Dung beetles as samplers of mammals in Malaysian Borneo—a test of high throughput metabarcoding of iDNA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) sampling in biodiversity surveys is becoming increasingly widespread, with most terrestrial studies relying on DNA derived from the gut contents of blood-feeding invertebrates, such as leeches and mosquitoes. Dung beetles (
Rosie Drinkwater +5 more
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Mammal dung–dung beetle trophic networks: an improved method based on gut-content DNA [PDF]
PeerJBackground Dung beetles provide many important ecosystem services, including dung decomposition, pathogen control, soil aeration, and secondary seed dispersal. Yet, the biology of most dung beetles remains unknown.
Karen M. Pedersen +3 more
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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]
, 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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The relationships between dung beetles and monkeys in the Neotropical region
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The relationship between dung beetles and arboreal mammals has been scarcely studied, and many of the reports refer to observations without a standardized methodology.
Gonzalo Halffter, Mario E. Favila
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Malnutrition and parasitism shape ecosystem services provided by dung beetles
Ecological Indicators, 2021 Ecosystem services relies on several insects that provide fundamental functions. Despite the quality of these ecosystem services depends on insect diversity, abundance and biomass, little is known about the effects that individual body condition has over
Mariana Servín-Pastor +7 more
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Increasing sika deer population density may change resource use by larval dung beetles.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Because animal feces contain organic matter and plant seeds, dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) are important for the circulation of materials and secondary seed dispersal through burying feces.
Hayato Yama +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Insects in seasonal tropics experience a wide range of temperatures along seasons, habitats, and a day. Therefore, the thermal tolerance of the insects can be a major driver for their habitat preference, temporal patterns of activity, and formation of ...
G. Asha +3 more
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Structure‐Guided Dynamical Mechanics in Bioinspired Double Twisted Laminated Thin Films
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work explores a dynamic mechanistic study of crack propagation and puncture testing via real‐time monitoring of crack initiation, propagation, and termination through nature‐inspired single and double twisted architectures fabricated from cellulose nanocrystals.
Justin Brackenridge +4 more
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Associações entre besouros escarabeíneos e mamíferos de médio e grande porte da Mata Atlântica em Santa Catarina, Brasil [PDF]
, 2014 Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Florianópolis, 2014.Os escarabeíneos estão ecológica e evolutivamente ligados aos mamíferos já que se alimentam e ...
Bogoni, Juliano André
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