Effect of tunneler dung beetles on cattle dung decomposition, soil nutrients and herbage growth

By D. Yamada, O. Imura, K. Shi, Takeshi Shibuya. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A brown‐world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: effects of predator interactions and warming (2011, background): “As noted, the total soil organic matter content is high, but the nutrient availability is relatively low at this study site compared to other grasslands (e.g., Yamada et al. 2007).”
Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles (2008, background): “In the absence of dung beetle activity, nitrogen mineralization rates in freshly deposited dung initially increase, accompanied by a release of inorganic N (Yamada et al., 2007; Yokoyama and Kai, 1993; Yokoyama et al., 1991a, 1989).”
The adoption of silvopastoral systems promotes the recovery of ecological processes regulated by dung beetles in the Colombian Andes (2011, background): “Several experiments link the activities of dung beetles with the return rate of nutrients to the soil (Yokoyama & Kai, 1993; Yamada et al., 2007), and with the growth and health of plants (Borghesio, 1999; Bang et al., 2005; Bertone et al., 2006), all of which could potentially reduce the need to…”
The application of an ecosystem services framework to estimate the economic value of dung beetles to the U.K. cattle industry (2015, background): “…(N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg) may be higher in soil under dung exposed to dung beetles compared with when dung beetles were excluded (Kazuhira et al., 1991; Mittal, 1993; Bertone, 2004; Bang et al., 2005; Yamada et al., 2007; Doube, 2008; Table S12, File S1).”