Tropical forest dung beetle‐mammal dung interaction networks remain similar across an environmental disturbance gradient

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Yuen Chiew ◽  
Talya D. Hackett ◽  
Jedediah F. Brodie ◽  
Shu Woan Teoh ◽  
David F. R. P. Burslem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Interaction Networks ◽  
Environmental Disturbance ◽  
Disturbance Gradient

Bee-Plant Interaction Networks in a Seasonal Dry Tropical Forest of the Colombian Caribbean

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Flórez-Gómez ◽  
J. D. Maldonado-Cepeda ◽  
R. Ospina-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Interaction Networks ◽  
Dry Tropical Forest ◽  
Plant Interaction ◽  
Bee Plant

Matrix habitat restoration alters dung beetle species responses across tropical forest edges

2014 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Barnes ◽  
Rowan M. Emberson ◽  
Hazel M. Chapman ◽  
Frank-T. Krell ◽  
Raphael K. Didham
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Habitat Restoration ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Forest Edges ◽  
Matrix Habitat ◽  
Species Responses

Vertical Stratification Responses of an Arboreal Dung Beetle Species to Tropical Forest Fragmentation in Malaysia

Biotropica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Tregidgo ◽  
Lan Qie ◽  
Jos Barlow ◽  
Navjot S. Sodhi ◽  
Susan Lee-Hong Lim
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Fragmentation ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Vertical Stratification ◽  
Beetle Species

Changes in dung beetle communities along a gradient of tropical forest disturbance in South-East Asia

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 677-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Ser Huay Lee ◽  
Ian Qian Wei Lee ◽  
Susan Lee-Hong Lim ◽  
Johannes Huijbregts ◽  
Navjot S. Sodhi
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Disturbance ◽  
Dung Beetle ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Dung Beetles ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Biodiversity Changes

With increasing conversion of South-East Asian forests to human-dominated landscapes, dramatic changes in biodiversity are likely to have ramifications on ecosystem processes (Sodhi & Brook 2006). Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) have been used to investigate how biodiversity changes affect ecosystem functions (Larsen et al. 2005, Slade et al. 2007). Dung beetles provide important ecosystem services such as dung removal and secondary seed dispersal (Nichols et al. 2008) and have been shown to be reliable indicators of tropical forest disturbance (Gardner et al. 2008, Klein 1989). Here, we determine the effects of forest disturbance on the species richness of dung beetles and ecosystem functions they perform in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. As far as we know, there has been no known study published on dung beetle ecology on the Malay Peninsula. In this study, we test the hypothesis that old-growth forests contain dung beetle communities of higher species richness, abundance, biomass and larger body size. Previous studies have shown that changes in dung beetle communities have the potential to disrupt ecosystem services in natural habitats (Larsen et al. 2005, Mittal 1993). We also investigate whether dung removal is affected by forest disturbance and test the hypothesis that dung removal is reduced in more disturbed forests compared with less-disturbed forests.

Corrigendum to “Quantifying the factors affecting wood decomposition across a tropical forest disturbance gradient” [For. Ecol. Manage. 468 (2020) 118166]

2021 ◽  
Vol 491 ◽  
pp. 119170
Author(s):  
Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa ◽  
Ekananda Paudel ◽  
Douglas Schaefer ◽  
Jiao-Lin Zhang ◽  
Kun-Fang Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Forest Disturbance ◽  
Wood Decomposition ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Disturbance Gradient
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