The verification and application of bioindicators: a case study of dung beetles in a savanna ecosystem

By M. McGeoch, B. J. Rensburg, A. Botes. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Seasonal and spatial species richness variation of dung beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae s. str.) in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil (2009, background): “…to be bioindicators – are useful for studying the effects of deforestation and for evaluating the changes that ecosystems as a whole can suffer as a result of environmental alterations (Halffter et al. 1992; Halffter & Favila 1993; Davis et al. 2001; McGeoch et al. 2002; Gardner et al. 2008).”
Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, background): “Instead, entomologists have advocated the use of subsets of certain insect taxa, such as dung beetles, based on ease of sampling and response to habitat gradients (Spector & Forsyth 1998, McGeoch et al. 2002).”
BIODIVERSITY INDICATOR GROUPS OF TROPICAL LAND‐USE SYSTEMS: COMPARING PLANTS, BIRDS, AND INSECTS (2004, background): “…modification (Davis and Sutton 1998, Davis et al. 2001) and, therefore, the number of diversity studies focusing on this taxon has been increasing recently (e.g., Klein 1989, Nummelin and Hanski 1989, Hanski and Krikken 1991, Halffter and Favila 1993, Hill 1996, Davis 2000, McGeoch et al. 2002).”
Saproxylic beetle diversity in a managed boreal forest: importance of stand characteristics and forestry conservation measures (2007, background): “While richness and abundance are the most commonly used measures of diversity, species identity and assemblage structure are often more informative measures of patterns of biodiversity (McGeoch et al., 2002; Magurran, 2004).”
Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference. (2009, background): “Other combinations of A and B may be of interest (see McGeoch et al. 2002).”
Ants, altitude and change in the northern Cape Floristic Region (2006, background): “Species with significant IndVals greater than 70% (subjective benchmark, see van Rensburg et al., 1999; McGeoch et al., 2002) were then regarded as indicators of a particular site.”
Attractivity of omnivore, carnivore and herbivore mammalian dung to Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) in a tropical Atlantic rainforest remnant (2009, positive): “…de Entomologia 53(3): 422–427, setembro 2009 The beetles of the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) are well represented insects in tropical regions, and recently have been used in monitoring biodiversity studies (Halffter & Favila 1993; Davis et al. 2001; Rensburg & Botes 2002).”
Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity? (2014, background): “…widely proposed as costeffective bioindicators because they are sensitive to ecosystem changes, easily sampled, broadly distributed, and their taxonomy and ecology are relatively well known (Gardner et al., 2008; Halffter and Favila, 1993; McGeoch et al., 2002; Nichols et al., 2007; Spector, 2006).”
Effect of Deforestation on a Southwest Ghana Dung Beetle Assemblage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) at the Periphery of Ankasa Conservation Area (2005, methodology): “Dung beetles were used as indicators (Halffter and Favila 1993, McGeoch et al. 2002) because of their specialist associations with both vegetation and dung type (Cambefort 1982, 1991, Cambefort and Walter 1991, Davis 1994, 1996).”
Cascading biodiversity and functional consequences of a global change–induced biome switch (2012, background): “Species with significant IndVals > 70% were considered as species characteristic of the site or habitat in question (subjective benchmark, see Van Rensburg et al., 1999; McGeoch et al., 2002).”
Changes of dung beetle communities from rainforests towards agroforestry systems and annual cultures in Sulawesi (Indonesia) (2005, background): “The potential of dung beetles as indicators for disturbance has been reviewed by Halffter and Favila (1993) and McGeoch et al. (2002).”
Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function (2021, background): “In addition, dung beetles are good bioindicators of anthropogenic disturbances due to their close relationship with both vegetation cover and mammal richness and abundance (Davis et al., 2001; McGeoch et al., 2002; Nichols & Gardner, 2011; Nichols et al., 2009; Otavo et al., 2013).”