Biodiversity drives ecological functioning, ultimately providing ecosystem services.
Ecosystem processes are favored by greater functional diversity, particularly when groups of …

Dung beetles have key roles in ecosystems including accelerating dung decomposition,
improving nutrient cycling and influencing physical (such as structure) and chemical (such …

The ecosystem services provided by dung beetles are well known and valued. Dung beetles
bury dung for feeding and breeding, and it is generally thought that the process of burying …

The role of dung beetles has been extensively reported in successful plant growth, soil
quality improvement, and soil reclamation. Still, its effects on plant physiology and …

Loss of large‐bodied mammals across the globe through hunting, habitat degradation, and
fragmentation is one of the most significant anthropogenic impacts on the environment …

In closed‐canopy systems globally, plants exhibit intense competition for light, prioritizing
vertical growth to attain elevated positions within the canopy. Light competition is especially …

Dung beetles relocate vertebrate feces under the soil surface, and this behavior has many
ecological consequences. In tropical forests, for example, seeds defecated by mammals that …

Abstract Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) mediate many ecological functions that
are important to maintain the ecosystem functioning of terrestrial environments. Although a …

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 …

Dung beetle activity causes many changes in the soil when they remove feces from the
surface. In temperate grasslands and in greenhouse experiments, these changes have been …