A review of dung beetle introductions in the Antipodes and North America: Status, opportunities, and challenges

MR Pokhrel, SC Cairns, Z Hemmings… - Environmental …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Following the introduction of cattle, exotic dung beetles (Coleoptera: Aphodiidae,
Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae) were imported into the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand) …

Integrating ecosystem services supply and demand into optimized management at different scales: A case study in Hulunbuir, China

F Cui, H Tang, Q Zhang, B Wang, L Dai - Ecosystem Services, 2019 - Elsevier
Identifying relationships that exist between ecosystem service (ES) supply and demand at
different scales is considered crucial to the sustainable management of ecosystem services …

[HTML][HTML] Greater bee diversity is needed to maintain crop pollination over time

NJ Lemanski, NM Williams, R Winfree - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
The current biodiversity crisis underscores the need to understand how biodiversity loss
affects ecosystem function in real-world ecosystems. At any one place and time, a few highly …

Prairie strips and lower land use intensity increase biodiversity and ecosystem services

LR Kemmerling, CE Rutkoski, SE Evans… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural landscapes can be managed to protect biodiversity and maintain ecosystem
services. One approach to achieve this is to restore native perennial vegetation within …

Small watersheds are the best control and management unit for improving soil conservation services in karst areas

Z Tang, R Li - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate factors and changes in landscape patterns are often recognized as the primary
drivers of soil conservation services. The influence mechanism of climate factors and …

Lasting decrease in functionality and richness: Effects of ivermectin use on dung beetle communities

L Ambrožová, FXJ Sládeček, T Zítek, M Perlík… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Use of ivermectin in agro-ecosystems negatively affects non-target dung beetles, which
provide keystone ecosystem services for pasture functioning. While the direct effects of …

Rainforest litter invertebrates decimated by high severity burns during Australia's gigafires

H Gibb, JJ Grubb, D Black, N Porch, O Decker… - Austral …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme fires. In 2019–2020, extreme fires
burned 97 000 km2 of native vegetation in south‐eastern Australia, affecting many areas of …

Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal

R Maciel, RF Braga, RL Carvalho… - Insect Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The replacement of natural systems with agricultural lands is the main factor resulting in land
use change in tropical regions. Tropical savannas cover more than 20% of the global land …

Biodiversity mediates the effects of stressors but not nutrients on litter decomposition

L Beaumelle, F De Laender, N Eisenhauer - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Understanding the consequences of ongoing biodiversity changes for ecosystems is a
pressing challenge. Controlled biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments with random …

[HTML][HTML] Dung beetles: Functional identity, not functional diversity, accounts for ecological process disruption caused by the use of veterinary medical products

M Tonelli, JR Verdú, F Morelli, M Zunino - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2020 - Springer
The impact of veterinary medical products (VMPs) on dung beetles has been thoroughly
investigated. However, less is known about the ecological consequences for the ecosystem …