Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification

JA Noriega, J Hortal, I deCastro-Arrazola… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient
cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally reduces species and …

Importance of restoration of dung beetles in the maintenance of ecosystem services

S Torabian, AJ Leffler, L Perkins - Ecological Solutions and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dung beetles have key roles in ecosystems including accelerating dung decomposition,
improving nutrient cycling and influencing physical (such as structure) and chemical (such …

Habitat and food resource type, rather than sampling date, drive co-occurrence of dung beetle species in a tropical ecosystem mosaic

NL Reis, KA Santos, L Vieira, J Louzada - Acta Oecologica, 2023 - Elsevier
The species' coexistence and distribution patterns are fundamental in community ecology
research. Niche partitioning is used to evaluate co-occurrence patterns resulting from …

El género Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) de México

V Moctezuma - Dugesiana, 2021 - dugesiana.cucba.udg.mx
Se utilizó información proveniente de literatura para compilar el listado de la fauna de
Onthophagus de México. Se encontraron un total de 120 especies, de las cuales 85 son …

Good news! Sampling intensity needed for accurate assessments of dung beetle diversity may be lower in the Neotropics

JD Rivera, ME Favila - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ecological studies with Scarabaeinae dung beetles have increased exponentially over the
past 30 years, using lethal pitfall traps baited with mammal feces or carrion as the preferred …

Sampling completeness changes perceptions of continental scale climate–species richness relationships in odonates

F Alves‐Martins, J Stropp, L Juen… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Insects are one of the least studied taxa, with most species lacking basic ecological and
biogeographical information. This problem is particularly acute in the tropics, where low …

Environmental drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles across a chronosequence of tropical grasslands with different cattle grazing removal ages

CMA Correa, PG da Silva - Austral Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Livestock is a globally widespread farming practice, with benefits and harms for biodiversity.
Biodiversity responses to vegetation and soil conditions associated with cattle grazing …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution, Regionalization, and Diversity of the dung beetle genus Phanaeus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) using Species Distribution Models

V Lizardo, V Moctezuma, F Escobar - Zootaxa, 2022 - mapress.com
The genus Phanaeus is a well-known group whose taxonomy has been described multiple
times. Its distribution was previously classified into 11 ecogeographic groups that are …

Elevational and seasonal distribution of Scarabaeinae dung beetles (scarabaeidae: Coleoptera) at Itatiaia national park (Brazil)

CO Araújo, J Hortal, MV de Macedo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Mountains present large climatic variations along elevational gradients, which can affect the
distribution and abundance of species over space and time (eg reduction in richness …

Multifactorial structuring in a local guild of coprophilic scarab beetles from the Mexican transition zone: Analyses of ecological hypotheses

V Moctezuma, G Halffter, F Escobar - Ecological Entomology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain the environmental gradients‐biotic
structuring relationship. Nevertheless, several inconsistencies have arisen when only one …