Urbanization effects on dung beetle assemblages in a tropical city

RP Salomão, F Alvarado, F Baena-Díaz, ME Favila… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
The maintenance of forest fragments within urban landscapes is essential for human well-
being, as the loss of biodiversity may result in a reduction of ecological services in cities …

El Niño impacts on human‐modified tropical forests: Consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes

FM França, J Ferreira, FZ Vaz‐de‐Mello, LF Maia… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Our knowledge of how tropical forest biodiversity and functioning respond to anthropogenic
and climate‐associated stressors is limited. Research exploring El Niño impacts are scarce …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary history and diversity in the ball roller beetle Canthon cyanellus

J Nolasco-Soto, J González-Astorga… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To understand the evolutionary history of species, it is necessary to know the mechanisms
for reproductive isolation, divergence-time between populations, and the relative action of …

Insularization drives physiological condition of Amazonian dung beetles

LVBMP de Cerqueira, D González Tokman… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The fragmentation and degradation of otherwise continuous natural landscapes pose
serious threats to the health of animal populations, consequently impairing their fitness and …

Landscape effects on taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages in a highly fragmented tropical forest

JD Rivera, PG da Silva, ME Favila - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
We evaluated how the taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles responds to
landscape fragmentation in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (LTBR). We sampled dung …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Malnutrition and parasitism shape ecosystem services provided by dung beetles

M Servín-Pastor, RP Salomão, F Caselín-Cuevas… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services relies on several insects that provide fundamental functions. Despite the
quality of these ecosystem services depends on insect diversity, abundance and biomass …

The relative influence of different landscape attributes on dung beetle communities in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

TB Souza, FM França, J Barlow, P Dodonov… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Land-use change is considered the greatest threat to biodiversity worldwide. As such,
identifying the drivers that shape biological communities is crucial for enhancing …

Dung beetle body condition: a tool for disturbance evaluation in contaminated pastures

S Villada‐Bedoya, A Córdoba‐Aguilar… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The use of veterinary medical products and herbicides is a common practice in intensified
livestock systems. These compounds affect nontarget organisms that perform important …

Fear or food? Prey availability is more important than predation risk in determining aerial insectivorous bat responses across a disturbed tropical forest landscape

G Appel, CFJ Meyer, PED Bobrowiec - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2023 - Springer
Habitat disturbance affects, directly or indirectly, the predation risk and food available to
animals. One group of animals that may be negatively affected by habitat disturbance are …