Dung beetles are one of the most representative groups of insects associated with livestock,
as they take advantage of the manure of livestock for food and reproduction. They have …

Anthelmintics, veterinary medicines for the control of endoparasites, enter into the
environment largely through faeces of the treated animals. Sheep dung is a patchily …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 741–748 Abstract Current climate and Pleistocene climatic
changes are both known to be associated with geographical patterns of diversity. We assess …

Biological responses to a disturbance can vary among taxa, which challenges the use of
bioindicators for representing biodiversity responses more broadly. Linking ecological traits …

Shrub encroachment linked to heavy grazing has dramatically changed savanna
landscapes, and is a major form of rangeland degradation. Our understanding of how shrub …

We analyze the impact of grazing on dung beetle diversity at the Barranca de Metztitlán
Biosphere Reserve, a xeric ecosystem in central Mexico with a long history of use by …

The role of deterministic and stochastic mechanisms in community assembly is a key
question in ecology, but little is known about their relative contribution in dung beetle …

The species‐energy hypothesis predicts increasing biodiversity with increasing energy in
ecosystems. Proxies for energy availability are often grouped into ambient energy (ie, solar …

Dung beetles are an ecologically important group of insect species inhabiting semi-natural
grasslands in Europe. Despite their ecological importance, several dung beetle species are …