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InsectsDung beetles mostly feed on mammal dung. Throughout the European Alps, the dung produced by local domestic ungulates attracts many species of dung beetles, giving rise to rich and diversified communities that play an important role in the Alpine ...
Antonio Rolando +4 more
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Rapid dung removal by beetles suggests higher duiker densities in Central African rainforests
Oryx, 2023 For many mammal species, converting dung density into population density requires accurate estimates of defaecation rate and dung survival time. The latter parameter probably varies seasonally.
Towa Olivier William Kamgaing +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Dung beetles are secondary seed dispersers, incidentally moving many of the seeds defecated by mammals vertically (seed burial) and/or horizontally as they process and relocate dung.
Lina Adonay Urrea-Galeano +5 more
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Origin and Diversification of Dung Beetles in Madagascar
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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علوم آب و خاک, 2018 The present study was conducted to assess effect of dung beetles function in the soil water infiltration performance on the part of rangeland of university of Sharekord in the form of a completely randomized design within one year.
E. Rahimi +2 more
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A comprehensive synthesis of dung beetle records (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from Sabah, Malaysia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalDung beetles play key roles in terrestrial ecosystems, contributing to many important ecosystem process and functions, such as nutrient recycling, parasite control and seed dispersal.
Marx Yim +3 more
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A preliminary study on the dung beetles of the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018 The present study documented 50 species represented by 25 genera, 17 tribes, seven subfamilies belonging to Hybosoridae, Geotrupidae and Scarabaeidae of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra.
Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate
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Differential ecophysiological syndromes explain the partition of the thermal niche resource in coexisting Eucraniini dung beetles [PDF]
, 2022 José R. Verdú +3 more
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ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND DUNG BEETLES [PDF]
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2013 A major challenge of ecological research is to assess the functional consequences of species richness loss over time and space in global biodiversity hotspots, where extinctions are happening at an unprecedented rate. In this study we propose a conceptual model that incorporates body size as a critical aspect of community responses to environmental ...
Olivier Dangles +2 more
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Dung beetles eat acorns to increase their ovarian development and thermal tolerance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Animals eat different foods in proportions that yield a more favorable balance of nutrients. Despite known examples of these behaviors across different taxa, their ecological and physiological benefits remain unclear.
José R Verdú +3 more
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