Global dung beetle response to tropical forest modification and fragmentation: A quantitative literature review and meta-analysis

By Elizabeth S Nichols, T. Larsen, S. Spector, A. Davis, F. Escobar, M. Favila, K. Vulinec. 2007

591 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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In Forestry

1. C. A. Peres
2. G. Halffter
3. D. Navarrete
4. Jos Barlow

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. A. Peres
2. Jos Barlow
3. T. Gardner
4. D. Navarrete
5. G. Halffter
6. M. I. Hernández
7. J. Louzada
8. R. Pardini

In Paleontology

1. G. Halffter
2. D. Navarrete
3. T. Larsen
4. Joaquín Hortal
5. J. Louzada
6. C. A. Peres
7. Lívia D. Audino
8. L. Comita

Citations in the corpus

• Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity? (2014, background): “Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) have been 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”
• Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles (2007, background): “In conclusion, we believe that one of the most probable explanations for the differences between our results and those of the studies reviewed by Nichols et al. (2007) relates to the large spatial scale and experimental design of our study.”
• Functional structure of ant and termite assemblages in old growth forest, logged forest and oil palm plantation in Malaysian Borneo (2014, background): “Also, a review of tropical forest dung beetle communities showed similar diversity declines with increasing habitat disturbance, along with a reduction in the number of forest species (Nichols et al. 2007).”
• Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function (2021, background): “Indeed, in forested areas, impacts like area reduction, fragmentation, selective cutting, hunting, etc. lead to changes in their abundance, richness, and functional composition of the assemblages (Braga et al., 2013; Nichols et al., 2007; Slade et al., 2011; Tonelli et al., 2018).”
• Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests (2009, background): “Clear-cutting has often had negative consequences for arthropod diversity and ecosystem functioning (Siira-Pietikäinen et al., 2003; Pawson et al., 2006; Nichols et al., 2007), usually leading to the replacement of forest specialist species with open-habitat species (Buddle et al.”
• Dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) diversity in continuous forest, forest fragments and cattle pastures in a landscape of Chiapas, Mexico: the effects of anthropogenic changes (2008, methodology): “For instance, of the 33 studies analyzed by Nichols et al. (2007), only seven compare the undisturbed forest to the forest fragments.”
• Improving the design and management of forest strips in human-dominated tropical landscapes: a field test on Amazonian dung beetles (2010, background): “…indicator (sensu McGeoch 2007; Gardner 2010) as they are cost-effective indicators of land-use change, both generally (Halffter & Favila 1993; Nichols et al. 2007) and for our study region (Gardner et al. 2008a, b), and have an important (and relatively well defined) role in ecosystem…”
• Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles (2008, background): “Third, greater emphasis on the mechanisms of function responses to environmental change will help us to predict the ecological implications of dung beetle biodiversity loss (Larsen et al., 2005; Nichols et al., 2007).”
• The adoption of silvopastoral systems promotes the recovery of ecological processes regulated by dung beetles in the Colombian Andes (2011, background): “It is also known that the intensification of crop and livestock farming in tropical and subtropical regions modify dung beetle assemblages (Nichols et al., 2007), although to date there is no knowledge about the impact of this change on the ecological processes mediated by these beetles in the…”
• Co‐declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade (2009, background): “…result in superficially similar changes in both mammal (e.g. fragmentation, fire: Estrada et al. 1993) and dung beetle communities (e.g. decreases in average beetle size: Larsen et al. 2005, Gardner et al. 2008a; altered community structure: Nichols et al. 2007) as those elicited by overhunting.”
• Harvestmen in an Atlantic forest fragmented landscape: Evaluating assemblage response to habitat quality and quantity (2007, background): “Among arthropods themselves, there is a clear imbalance in scientific knowledge, with most studies about the effects of tropical forest disturbances or fragmentation focusing on certain groups such as bees (Powell and Powell, 1987; Murren, 2002; Tonhasca et al., 2002; Ricketts, 2004; Bodin et al.,”
• Systematic review of effects on biodiversity from oil palm production (2014, methodology): “[24] was used to calculate the mean change in the number of shared species between forest and oil palm habitats, standardized by the total number of species recorded in forest.”
• Habitat fragmentation alters the structure of dung beetle communities in the Atlantic Forest (2011, background): “Although several studies have examined fragmentation-related effects on dung beetles (Nichols et al., 2007; Larsen et al., 2008), few studies addressed simultaneously the influence of fragment, landscape and vegetation attributes on dung beetle communities.”
• Measuring the success of reforestation for restoring biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (2016, background): “They are particularly suitable for investigating the 96 consequences of habitat recovery as they are stenotopic and thus intrinsically sensitive to 97 alterations in environmental conditions (Nichols et al. 2007).”
• Supply of tree-holes limits nest density of cavity-nesting birds in primary and logged subtropical Atlantic forest (2010, background): “, 2009), and is one of the few widespread economic activities to retain much of the cover and biodiversity of native forests (Johns, 1992; Nichols et al., 2007; Putz et al., 2001; Wells et al., 2007).”