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1. Dung Beetles Increase Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Dung Pats in a North Temperate Grassland

Author:
Kenneth S. Evans; Martha Mamo; Ana Wingeyer; Walter H. Schacht; Kent M. Eskridge; Jeff Bradshaw; Daniel Ginting
Source:
Journal of environmental quality 2019 v.48 no.3 pp. 537-548
ISSN:
0047-2425
Subject:
Coleoptera; carbon dioxide; cattle manure; dung beetles; ecosystems; feces; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gases; macropores; meadows; methane; nitrous oxide; rangelands; soil fauna; Nebraska
Abstract:
... Soil fauna plays a critical role in various ecosystem processes, but empirical data measuring its impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rangelands are limited. We quantified the effects of dung beetles on in situ CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O emissions from simulated cattle dung deposits. Soil in meadows of the semiarid Nebraska Sandhills was treated with three treatments (dung pats with exposure and ...
DOI:
10.2134/jeq2018.03.0111

2. Dung beetle activity affects rain forest seed bank dynamics and seedling establishment

Author:
Lina Adonay Urrea‐Galeano; Ellen Andresen; Rosamond Coates; Francisco Mora Ardila; Guillermo Ibarra‐Manríquez
Source:
Biotropica 2019 v.51 no.2 pp. 186-195
ISSN:
0006-3606
Subject:
Coleoptera; artificial seeds; buried seeds; defecation; dung beetles; environmental impact; feces; field experimentation; mammals; plant establishment; predation; rain forests; seedlings; soil; tropical forests
Abstract:
... 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 are subsequently buried by dung beetles are less likely to suffer predation. While the effects of dung beetles on the fate of defecated seeds have been relatively well studied, their effect on seeds already buried in th ...
DOI:
10.1111/btp.12631

3. Dung beetle diversity and functions suggest no major impacts of cattle grazing in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands

Author:
César M. A. Correa; Rodrigo F. Braga; Julio Louzada; Rosa Menéndez
Source:
Ecological entomology 2019 v.44 no.4 pp. 524-533
ISSN:
0307-6946
Subject:
Coleoptera; biomass; bioturbation; cattle; cattle breeding; dung beetles; ecological function; feces; grasslands; grazing; insect communities; livestock farming; livestock production; parasites; pastures; soil; species richness; wetlands; Brazil; Pantanal
Abstract:
... 1. Dung beetles perform relevant ecological functions in pastures, such as dung removal and parasite control. Livestock farming is the main economic activity in the Brazilian Pantanal. However, the impact of cattle grazing on the Pantanal's native dung beetle community, and functions performed by them, is still unknown. 2. This study evaluated the effects of cattle activity on dung beetle communit ...
DOI:
10.1111/een.12729

4. Dung beetles can tunnel into highly compacted soils from reclaimed mined sites in eMalahleni, South Africa

Author:
Jackie Dabrowski; Gustav Venter; Wayne F. Truter; Clarke H. Scholtz
Source:
Applied soil ecology 2019 v.134 pp. 116-119
ISSN:
0929-1393
Subject:
Euoniticellus intermedius; Onitis; cattle manure; compacted soils; dung beetles; ecosystem services; feces; land use; resistance to penetration; sex ratio; soil penetration resistance; South Africa
Abstract:
... Dung beetles provide a multitude of ecosystem services that could be used to improve post-mining land use options. Highly compacted soils are a feature of reclaimed mine sites and may pose a significant challenge to tunnelling dung beetles. This study aimed to determine if dung beetles can tunnel into compacted soils, and how a range of soil penetration resistance may influence their tunnelling de ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.apsoil.2018.10.015

5. Effects of eprinomectin on the survival, reproduction and feeding activity of the dung beetles, Onthophagus lenzii Harold, and rare species, Copris ochus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Author:
I. Ishikawa; M. Iwasa
Source:
Bulletin of entomological research 2019 v.109 no.2 pp. 191-198
ISSN:
1475-2670
Subject:
Copris; Onthophagus; adults; cattle; cattle manure; dung beetles; eggs; eprinomectin; feces; instars; larvae; oviposition; progeny; rare species; Japan
Abstract:
... Effects of the antiparasitic drug eprinomectin were studied on the dung beetles, Onthophagus lenzii Harold and the rare species, Copris ochus Motschulsky by pour-on administrations (500 µg kg⁻¹) in Japan. Eprinomectin was detected in cattle dung from 1 to 7 or 14 days after treatment, with a peak at 1 day after treatment in two experiments. In O. lenzii, adult survivals and numbers of brood balls ...
DOI:
10.1017/S0007485318000317
PubMed:
29784064 29784064

6. Effects of herd management and the use of ivermectin on dung arthropod communities in grasslands

Author:
Jacob R. Pecenka; Jonathan G. Lundgren
Source:
Basic and applied ecology 2019 v.40 pp. 19-29
ISSN:
1439-1791
Subject:
agroecosystems; arthropod communities; arthropods; biogeochemical cycles; cattle; community structure; dung beetles; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; feces; grasslands; herds; ivermectin; landscapes; management systems; morphospecies; pests; range management; rangelands; rotational grazing; species abundance; species richness; stocking rate; Great Plains region; South Dakota
Abstract:
... Agroecosystems represent a large geographical footprint in most terrestrial landscapes, and management decisions within these systems affect their function in species conservation. We evaluated the effects that rangeland management systems (based on stocking density, rotation frequency, and the number of avermectin applications) have on conserving the dung arthropod community in the Northern Great ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.baae.2019.07.006

7. Effects of howler monkey reintroduction on ecological interactions and processes

Author:
Luísa Genes; Fernando A. S. Fernandez; Fernando Z. Vaz‐de‐Mello; Patrícia da Rosa; Eduardo Fernandez; Alexandra S. Pires
Source:
Conservation biology 2019 v.33 no.1 pp. 88-98
ISSN:
0888-8892
Subject:
Alouatta; Coleoptera; diet; dung beetles; ecological competition; feces; forest regeneration; forests; frugivores; seed dispersal; seed size
Abstract:
... Rewilding has been an increasingly popular tool to restore plant–animal interactions and ecological processes impaired by defaunation. However, the reestablishment of such processes has seldom been assessed. We investigated the restoration of ecological interactions following the reintroduction of the brown howler monkey (Alouatta guariba) to a defaunated Atlantic forest site. We expected the rein ...
DOI:
10.1111/cobi.13188

8. Elevational variation of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) communities on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Author:
Christie A Sukhdeo; T Keith Philips; Geraud C Tasse; Eric B Fokam; Katy Morgan
Source:
African zoology 2019 v.54 no.3 pp. 151-160
ISSN:
2224-073X
Subject:
Scarabaeidae; bait traps; biogeochemical cycles; bushmeat; community structure; dung beetles; ecological footprint; environmental health; feces; forest ecosystems; habitats; humans; monitoring; pitfall traps; seed dispersal; species richness; topology; tropical forests; Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea
Abstract:
... Dung beetles are important for the healthy functioning of tropical forest ecosystems, performing essential roles, including nutrient recycling and secondary seed dispersal. Sensitive to changes in both habitat quality and vertebrate diversity, dung beetles are ideal taxa for monitoring ecosystem health. The current study provides the first documentation of dung beetle diversity on the Central Afri ...
DOI:
10.1080/15627020.2019.1645618

9. Experimental warming alters the relative survival and emigration of two dung beetle species from an Australian dung pat community

Author:
Jean M. Holley; Nigel R. Andrew
Source:
Austral ecology 2019 v.44 no.5 pp. 800-811
ISSN:
1442-9985
Subject:
Euoniticellus; animals; dung beetles; ecosystem services; feces; global warming; oviposition; pastures; probability; species diversity; temperature; New South Wales
Abstract:
... To preserve insect‐mediated ecosystem services under ongoing climate change, it is necessary to first understand the impact that warming will have on the insects that provide or mediate these services. Furthermore, because responses of a species may be modified by interactions with competitors, it is informative to examine warming effects on organisms and service provision under competition. Dung ...
DOI:
10.1111/aec.12750

10. Fire? They don't give a dung! The resilience of dung beetles to fire in a tropical savanna

Author:
Cássio A. Nunes; Wallace Beiroz; Pedro G. da Silva; Rodrigo F. Braga; G. Wilson Fernandes; Frederico De S. Neves
Source:
Ecological entomology 2019 v.44 no.3 pp. 315-323
ISSN:
0307-6946
Subject:
biodiversity; biomass; dry season; dung beetles; feces; fire frequency; fire regime; fires; insect communities; savannas; terrestrial ecosystems; wet season
Abstract:
... 1. Disturbance is a strong driver of community assembly and fire has long been recognised as one of the main disturbances of terrestrial ecosystems. This study tested the resilience of dung beetles to fire events in campos rupestres, which is a tropical savanna ecosystem that evolved under a frequent fire regime, by assessing the resistance and recovery of their communities. 2. Dung beetles were s ...
DOI:
10.1111/een.12705

11. Functionally richer communities improve ecosystem functioning: Dung removal and secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in the Western Palaearctic

Author:
Tanja Milotić; Christophe Baltzinger; Carsten Eichberg; Amy E. Eycott; Marco Heurich; Jörg Müller; Jorge A. Noriega; Rosa Menendez; Jutta Stadler; Réka Ádám; Tessa Bargmann; Isabelle Bilger; Jörn Buse; Joaquín Calatayud; Constantin Ciubuc; Gergely Boros; Pierre Jay‐Robert; Märt Kruus; Enno Merivee; Geoffrey Miessen; Anne Must; Elham Ardali; Elena Preda; Iraj Rahimi; Dirk Rohwedder; Rob Rose; Eleanor M. Slade; László Somay; Pejman Tahmasebi; Stefano Ziani; Maurice Hoffmann
Source:
Journal of biogeography 2019 v.46 no.1 pp. 70-82
ISSN:
0305-0270
Subject:
Palearctic region; body size; climate change; dung beetles; ecological function; ecosystems; feces; grasslands; insect communities; latitude; macroinvertebrates; models; seed dispersal; seeds; soil; species diversity
Abstract:
... AIM: In several ecosystems, the diversity of functional species traits has been shown to have a stronger effect on ecosystem functioning than taxonomic diversity alone. However, few studies have explored this idea at a large geographical scale. In a multisite experiment, we unravelled the relationship between ecosystem function and functional completeness of species assemblages using dung beetles ...
DOI:
10.1111/jbi.13452

12. Initial Responses of Dung Beetle Communities to Bison Reintroduction in Restored and Remnant Tallgrass Prairie

Author:
Nicholas A. Barber; Sheryl C. Hosler; Peyton Whiston; Holly P. Jones
Source:
Natural areas journal 2019 v.39 no.4 pp. 420-428
ISSN:
0885-8608
Subject:
Bison bison; Geotrupidae; Scarabaeidae; biogeochemical cycles; biomass; bison; dung beetles; ecological function; ecosystem services; feces; grassland management; habitats; herbivores; insect communities; prescribed burning; tallgrass prairies
Abstract:
... Restoration is a critical component of grassland conservation worldwide, but grassland management requires disturbances that maintain the habitat. Further, successful restorations need to support not just a vegetative community, but also a diverse community of other organisms that contribute to a range of ecosystem functions. Large herbivore grazers like American bison (Bison bison) can be an impo ...
DOI:
10.3375/043.039.0405

13. Interspecific and intraspecific variation in diet preference in five Atlantic forest dung beetle species

Author:
Elizabeth H. Raine; Sandra B. Mikich; Owen T. Lewis; Eleanor M. Slade
Source:
Ecological entomology 2019 v.44 no.3 pp. 436-439
ISSN:
0307-6946
Subject:
Coleoptera; Panthera onca; dung beetles; ecological function; feces; feeding preferences; field experimentation; food choices; forests; humans; interspecific variation; intraspecific variation; swine
Abstract:
... 1. Dung beetles are commonly assumed to be generalist feeders, but there has been limited work in identifying whether there is interspecific variation in feeding preference. Equally, there has been no work exploring whether generalist feeding behaviour in a species is a result of within‐species specialisation. 2. This study identified the individual and species‐level feeding preferences of five du ...
DOI:
10.1111/een.12711

14. Is dung removal a good proxy for other dung beetle functions when monitoring for conservation? A case study from the Brazilian Amazon

Author:
Raquel L. Carvalho; Ellen Andresen; Gudryan Baronio; Victor Oliveira; Julio Louzada; Rodrigo Braga
Source:
Ecological indicators 2019 pp. -
ISSN:
1470-160X
Subject:
aeration; bioturbation; case studies; dung beetles; ecological function; feces; land use; pastures; pest control; secondary forests; seed dispersal; soil; Amazonia
Abstract:
... Dung beetles are increasingly used as a focal taxon for conservation monitoring. Dung removal is the most commonly quantified ecological function performed by dung beetles, since it is assumed to be strongly related to many other functions, such as soil excavation, pest control, nutrient cycling, secondary seed dispersal, etc. However, results of some studies suggest that this assumption may not a ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105841

15. Livestock areas with canopy cover sustain dung beetle diversity in the humid subtropical Chaco forest

Author:
Celeste Beatriz Guerra Alonso; Gustavo A. Zurita; M. Isabel Bellocq
Source:
Insect conservation and diversity 2019 v.12 no.4 pp. 296-308
ISSN:
1752-458X
Subject:
canopy; cow manure; dead animals; dung beetles; environmental factors; feces; forests; habitats; humans; humidity; insect communities; livestock; livestock production; pastures; pitfall traps; silvopastoral systems; soil structure; species diversity; spring; temperature; Argentina; El Gran Chaco
Abstract:
... We assessed differences in the alpha and beta diversity of dung beetles in native forest and two livestock systems (with and without canopy cover) typical of the Argentine Chaco region and related the dung beetle assemblages to environmental conditions. Dung beetles were sampled in native forest and two livestock systems in the spring (2015–2016), in two areas of the humid Chaco region in northern ...
DOI:
10.1111/icad.12340

16. Local management actions override farming systems in determining dung beetle species richness, abundance and biomass and associated ecosystem services

Author:
Irene Piccini; Claudia Palestrini; Antonio Rolando; Tomas Roslin
Source:
Basic and applied ecology 2019 v.41 pp. 13-21
ISSN:
1439-1791
Subject:
Coleoptera; biomass; certification; dairy farming; dung beetles; ecological footprint; ecological function; ecosystem services; ecosystems; farmers; farms; feces; insect communities; issues and policy; organic production; species richness
Abstract:
... Organic farming systems have been proposed to support higher biodiversity than conventional ones, and higher diversity might make ecosystems more resilient against environmental change. We investigated how dung beetle communities and associated ecological functions (dung removal) vary at two hierarchical levels among Swedish dairy farms: between farming systems (organic vs. conventional) and among ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.baae.2019.09.001

17. Morphological traits reflect dung beetle response to land use changes in tropical karst ecosystems of Vietnam

Author:
Van Bac Bui; Thomas Ziegler; Michael Bonkowski
Source:
Ecological indicators 2019 pp. -
ISSN:
1470-160X
Subject:
Scarabaeidae; dung beetles; ecosystem services; ecosystems; environmental indicators; feces; habitats; insect communities; karsts; land use change; meadows; primary forests; secondary forests; species richness; Vietnam
Abstract:
... Dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) are known to respond sensitive to habitat changes, but difficulties in the delineation of species together with their high local diversity have hindered the generalization of results. Morphological traits instead may better reflect species’ adaptations to habitat changes. We investigated changes in morphological traits of 41 tunnelling dung beetle species in ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105697

18. Organic farming promotes biotic resistance to foodborne human pathogens

Author:
Matthew S. Jones; Zhen Fu; John P. Reganold; Daniel S. Karp; Thomas E. Besser; Jason M. Tylianakis; William E. Snyder
Source:
Journal of applied ecology 2019 v.56 no.5 pp. 1117-1127
ISSN:
0021-8901
Subject:
Coleoptera; Escherichia coli O157; Sus scrofa; animal pathogens; biodiversity; biological control; coasts; conventional farming; dung beetles; ecosystem services; farm management; farms; feces; feral animals; food pathogens; food safety; habitats; laboratory experimentation; landscapes; livestock; organic production; pastures; pollination; risk; soil bacteria; vegetables; vertebrates; wildlife; United States
Abstract:
... Farmland biodiversity benefits pollination, biological control and other key ecosystem services. Food safety has been seen as an exception to this broader pattern, as diverse farmlands attract wildlife that vector foodborne human pathogens. Resulting mitigation efforts thus often seek to deter wildlife by removing natural habitats, while also excluding vertebrate livestock. However, surprising rec ...
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2664.13365

19. Organic farms conserve a dung beetle species capable of disrupting fly vectors of foodborne pathogens

Author:
Matthew S. Jones; Stephanie A. Wright; Olivia M. Smith; Thomas E. Besser; David H. Headrick; John P. Reganold; David W. Crowder; William E. Snyder
Source:
Biological control 2019 v.137 pp. 104020
ISSN:
1049-9644
Subject:
Brassica oleracea; Calliphora; Scarabaeidae; Sus scrofa; antagonists; bacteria; biological control; broccoli; community structure; disease transmission; dung beetles; enteropathogens; farm management; farming systems; farms; feces; food pathogens; food safety; humans; intestinal microorganisms; leaves; management systems; soil; survival rate; swine; wildlife; California; Oregon
Abstract:
... Produce can be contaminated with enteric bacteria when livestock or wildlife feces are deposited in vegetable fields. Coprophagous beetles and flies might mitigate this threat as they feed but could also transmit pathogens if they contact plants. Improved food safety will result only from farming practices that enhance coprophage benefits and limit harms. On 49 mixed-vegetable farm fields across t ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2019.104020
CHORUS:
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2019.104020

20. Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in a human-modified variegated landscape in Brazilian Cerrado

Author:
César M. A. Correa; Rodrigo F. Braga; Anderson Puker; Vanesca Korasaki
Source:
Journal of insect conservation 2019 v.23 no.1 pp. 89-99
ISSN:
1366-638X
Subject:
Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris; Urochloa; bait traps; biodiversity conservation; cerrado; dung beetles; ecosystems; fauna; feces; functional diversity; humans; landscapes; livestock; pastures; pitfall traps; riparian forests; rodents; species abundance; species richness; Brazil
Abstract:
... The Brazilian Cerrado harbors great floristic and structural diversity composed of a mosaic of natural vegetation types and anthropogenic environments such as introduced pastures. Here, our goal was to evaluate the patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in a human-modified landscape in Brazilian Cerrado. For this, we evaluated the species richness, species composition and a ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10841-018-00118-6