Dung Beetle
Respiratory airflow in a wingless dung beetle
... rolling dung beetle that feeds on the dung of large herbivores (elephant, buffalo and black rhinoceros) and is now restricted to a few populations in the eastern Cape of South Africa, apparently ...
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Understanding patterns of endemic dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) biodiversity in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest: implications of climate change
... between dung beetle and mammal species richness exists, while both are driven by similar responses to historical habitat stability and contemporary ...on dung beetle diversity difficult to ...
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Pilot trials of secondary seed dispersal potential from tree weta frass by the endemic dung beetle, Saphobius edwardsi in the Punakaiki Coastal Restoration Project, New Zealand
... Similarly dung beetles have been used as indicators of disturbance and restoration success (Davis et ...2012). Dung beetles also provide key ecosystem functions such as secondary seed dispersal, nutrient ...
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The impact of logging roads on dung beetle assemblages in a tropical rainforest reserve
... in dung beetle assemblages in proximity to roads, we created 24 sampling plots which were widely spaced across the landscape with a minimum distance of 650 m (mean ± SD: ...how dung beetle ...
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Dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) community structure across a forest- agriculture habitat ecotonein South Western Ghats
... Scarabaeinae dung beetles are ideal biological indicators that are used to study effects of habitat mo dification, fragmentation and edge effects on ...biodiversity. Dung beetle community structure ...
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Assessing the importance of intraspecific variability in dung beetle functional traits
... Conclusion Our exploration into the sources of trait variability in a functionally important invertebrate group has demonstrated that using dung beetle mean trait values when dealing wit[r] ...
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Anti-aging effect and gene expression profiling of dung beetle glycosaminoglycan in aged rats
... Dung beetle glycosaminoglycan decreased cholesterol and triglyceride levels in serum, caused a decrease in the weight of adipose tissue and a normalization of serum levels of free fatty acid, GPT, glucose, ...
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Dung beetle community dynamics in undisturbed tropical forests:implications for ecological evaluations of land use change
... hypotheses: 1 dung beetle community parameters abundance, richness, body mass,.. composition, structure and abundance of functional groups - activity period, nesting.[r] ...
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The role of the subelytral spiracles in respiration in the flightless dung beetle Circellium bacchus
... canthonine dung beetle, which is rare and restricted to fragmented patches of dense, arid bush in South Africa (Scholtz, ...flighted dung beetles has confined it to these areas, where its apterous ...
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Effects of habitat types on dung beetle (coleoptera: scarabaeinae) community structure in a protected area of central belize
... 2001). Dung beetle species richness estimation was done to compare observed species richness (Sobs) to estimated species richness using nonparametric speciesrichness estimator Chao 1 (Gotteli and Colwell, ...
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Assessing the importance of intraspecific variability in dung beetle functional traits
... Our final objective was to assess how the omission of intraspecific information in dung beetle traits influenced the accuracy with which functional diversity indices described naturally formed communities. ...
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Do climate envelope models transfer? A manipulative test using dung beetle introductions
... For each species, we tested this prediction by constructing a CEM describing the relationship between the outcome of each release in Australia (whether a population persisted or not) and the 16 climate parameters ...
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Effects of Land use Change on Dung Beetle (Scarabaeinae) Community Structure in South Western Ghats
... Scarabaeinae dung beetles were used as biological indicators to study the effects of land use change on biodiversity in the South Western ...and beetle sizes were compared between a forest and agriculture ...
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Identifying thresholds of logging intensity on dung beetle communities to improve the sustainable management of Amazonian tropical forests
... NULL LINEAR BROKEN STICK NULL Biomass LINEAR BROKEN STICK NULL Species LINEAR composition BROKEN STICK NULL Soil LINEAR bioturbation BROKEN STICK NULL Dung LINEAR removal BROKEN STICK Sp[r] ...
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Twilight orientation to polarised light in the crepuscular dung beetle Scarabaeus zambesianus
... Adult male and female Scarabaeus zambesianus Péringuey (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) were collected at Cinergy Game Farm, Naboomspruit District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, 24°38′ S, 28°45′ E. Field experiments were ...
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The Structure and Seasonal Dynamics of Coprophagous Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) Communities in Later Developmental Stages of Pine Stands in NW Poland
... abundant dung beetle species in later developmental stages of pine stands of the surroundings of Człuchów (Szyszko, 1983; Byk, 2011a), a vast majority of species represents the genus ...Europe. Dung ...
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Spatial and temporal shifts in functional and taxonomic diversity of dung beetles in a human modified tropical forest landscape
... in dung beetle communities between consecutive years, described by taxonomic and functional diversity approaches, we built generalized linear mixed ...
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Innate olfactory preferences in dung beetles
... Japanese dung beetle Geotrupes auratus (Inouchi et ...important dung volatiles, -citronellene, which dominated the volatile profile of horse dung, has only been reported in volatiles from ...
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Effects of Rainfall Seasonality on Scarabaeinae dung Beetles in an Agriculture Habitat in South Western Ghats
... Abstract—Scarabaeinae dung beetles are a ubiquitous group of beetles that are detritivores and provides important ecological services to the ...of dung beetles in an agriculture habitat in South Western ...
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... the dung beetle Oniticellus cinctus (Fabricius, 1775) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) were studied under laboratory conditions for the first time in ...the dung mass provided, wherein they made brood ...
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