Co‐declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade

By Elizabeth S Nichols, T. Gardner, C. A. Peres, S. Spector. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Forest loss or management intensification? Identifying causes of mammal decline in cacao agroforests (2014, background): “We examined medium and large sized mammals (usually larger than 500 g and hereafter referred to as large mammals), which are responsible for important ecological processes in tropical forest systems (Nichols et al., 2009; Stoner et al., 2007; Terborgh et al., 2001), and include many ‘‘umbrella speci”
Improving the design and management of forest strips in human-dominated tropical landscapes: a field test on Amazonian dung beetles (2010, background): “Although forest strips may occasionally be used by subsistence hunters (Parry et al. 2009a, b), overall large mammal activity was actually higher in forest strips than in the continuous forest controls.”
Moving beyond the guild concept: developing a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles (2015, background): “Beetle body length has been proven as a useful effect trait for dung beetles (e.g. Slade et al., 2007; Nichols et al., 2009).”
Large Mammals in an Agroforestry Mosaic in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2012, background): “Large mammals play important roles in forest ecosystems directly through seed dispersal and predation (Tabarelli & Peres 2002, Terborgh et al. 2008) and prey population control (Terborgh et al. 2001), or indirectly by helping to maintain assemblages of other faunal groups (Nichols et al. 2009).”
Conservation Biology for All (2010, background): “For instance, overhunting can severely disrupt key ecosystem processes including nutrient recycling and secondary seed dispersal exerted by relatively intact assemblages of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) and other coprophagous invertebrates that depend on large mammals for adult and larval ”
Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “For example, removing large temperate or tropical animals, and their dung, can disrupt the diversity and abundance of dung beetle communities (80), or force them to alternative feeding habits (81).”
The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity (2012, background): “…in tropical forests, such as large-bodied mammals (Peres and Palacios, 2007), understorey birds (Lees and Peres, 2006) and specialized dung beetles (Nichols et al., 2009), but there is virtually no evidence that these ecological groups have been outcompeted or otherwise replaced by exotic…”
Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity? (2014, background): “Our results also contrast with another meta-analysis by Nichols et al. (2007), which found that land-use systems with a high degree of forest cover (such as secondary forests) can harbor dung beetle assemblages similar, in terms of species richness and abundance, to those found in intact tropical fo”
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).”