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

Author(s):  
Li Yuen Chiew ◽  
Talya D. Hackett ◽  
Jedediah F. Brodie ◽  
Shu Woan Teoh ◽  
David F. R. P. Burslem ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Flórez-Gómez ◽  
J. D. Maldonado-Cepeda ◽  
R. Ospina-Torres

2014 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Barnes ◽  
Rowan M. Emberson ◽  
Hazel M. Chapman ◽  
Frank-T. Krell ◽  
Raphael K. Didham

Biotropica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Tregidgo ◽  
Lan Qie ◽  
Jos Barlow ◽  
Navjot S. Sodhi ◽  
Susan Lee-Hong Lim

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

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 491 ◽  
pp. 119170
Author(s):  
Gbadamassi G.O. Dossa ◽  
Ekananda Paudel ◽  
Douglas Schaefer ◽  
Jiao-Lin Zhang ◽  
Kun-Fang Cao ◽  
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