The role of dung beetles as secondary seed dispersers and their effect on plant regeneration in tropical rainforests.

By E. Andresen, F. Feer, P. Forget, J. Lambert, P. Hulme, S. B. Wall. 2005

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Forestry, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d6570949ae8cf505c583ac66076f7465066dac77

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Forestry

1. C. A. Peres
2. Jos Barlow

In Insect Science

1. Joaquín Hortal
2. C. A. Peres
3. T. Gardner
4. S. Spector
5. Jos Barlow
6. M. I. Hernández
7. T. Larsen
8. D. Navarrete

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. A. Peres
2. Jos Barlow
3. T. Gardner
4. M. I. Hernández
5. J. Louzada
6. Elizabeth S Nichols
7. Joaquín Hortal
8. S. Spector

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles (2007, background): “Journal compilation © 2008 British Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 883–893 services outside primary forests, such as secondary seed dispersal and dung burial (Andresen & Feer 2005).”
• Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles (2008, background): “While deeper seed burial depths decreases rodent detection and predation, buried seeds must also be shallow enough to permit germination and emergence (Andresen and Feer, 2005; Dalling et al., 1995).”
• Consequences of Seed Dispersal for Plant Recruitment in Tropical Forests: Interactions Within the Seedscape (2013, background): “…than 80 percent of tree species (Howe & Smallwood 1982, Willson et al. 1989, Muller-Landau & Hardesty 2005), and many plant species rely on multiple vectors due to subsequent dispersal from the ground by ants, dung beetles, or scatter-hoarding rodents (Forget et al. 2005, Vander Wall et al. 2005).”
• Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function (2021, background): “Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) contribute to several ecosystem services, like nutrient cycling, bioturbation, secondary seed dispersal, parasite suppression, among others (e.g., Andresen & Feer, 2005; Nichols et al., 2008; Badenhorst et al., 2018; DeCastro- Arrazola et al., 2020).”
• The adoption of silvopastoral systems promotes the recovery of ecological processes regulated by dung beetles in the Colombian Andes (2011, background): “The spatial relocation of seeds often favours germination and seedling emergence (Andresen & Levey, 2004) by reducing predation and mortality caused by pathogens (Janzen, 1983; Andresen & Feer, 2005).”