A Comparison of the Dung Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Collecting Performance of Pitfall Traps and Burrowing Interception Traps

Goh, Thary Gazi; Hashim, Rosli

doi:10.1649/0010-065x-72.1.195

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“…Onthophagus babirussa commonly occurs in forest and widely distributes in Sundaland (Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Palawan) (Balthasar 1963;Goh and Hashim 2018). When compared to our study, Goh and Hashim (2018) reported similar results regarding dominant species, with O. babirussa being highly caught by both pitfall traps and burrowing interception traps in the Ulu Gombak Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia. In contrast, low abundance of O. babirussa was collected in Gunung Palung National Park, Kalimantan (Malina et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 81%

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confidence: 98%

“…The occurrences of O. babirussa and O. tricolor were compared with other studies (Balthasar 1963;Kabakov and Napolov 1999;Tarasov 2014;Sofiana 2015;Goh and Hashim 2018;Malina et al 2018;Latifa 2019). Onthophagus babirussa commonly occurs in forest and widely distributes in Sundaland (Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Palawan) (Balthasar 1963;Goh and Hashim 2018). When compared to our study, Goh and Hashim (2018) reported similar results regarding dominant species, with O. babirussa being highly caught by both pitfall traps and burrowing interception traps in the Ulu Gombak Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia.…”

Section: Dominant Speciesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Dung beetle assemblages in lowland forests of Pangandaran Nature Reserve, West Java, Indonesia

Priawandiputra¹,

Tsuji²,

Widayati³

et al. 2020

Biodiversitas

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Abstract. Priawandiputra W, Tsuji Y, Widayati KA, Suryobroto B. 2020. Dung beetle assemblages in lowland forests of Pangandaran Nature Reserve, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 497-504. Dung beetles play crucial role in forest ecosystem, but no information on the dung beetle fauna has been reported in lowland forest of Java Island, Indonesia. Pangandaran Nature Reserve (PNR) area, which is recognized as lowland habitat of wildlife, can also support diversity of dung beetles. This study was conducted to examine the dung beetle diversity in lowland forests of PNR. The dung beetles were collected using pitfall traps baited with five species of mammal’s feces and hand collection of beetles found on dung along the road, between 2016 and 2018. During the study, 853 individuals of dung beetles from 17 species were collected. The dominant species were Onthophagus babirussa with 434 individuals (50.8%). The species were not dominant in the mountainous forests of West Java and in lowland forests of Southeast Sulawesi and East Kalimantan. The highest dung beetle abundances were found during the dry season (August): 335 individuals in 2017 and 286 in 2018. However, the diversity index value of dung beetles in this study was lower in the dry season than in the wet season (t-test of diversity index, P<0.05). The dung beetle assemblages in PNR were barely similar to most dung beetle studies of other regions.

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Section: Dominant Speciesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Dung beetle assemblages in lowland forests of Pangandaran Nature Reserve, West Java, Indonesia

Priawandiputra¹,

Tsuji²,

Widayati³

et al. 2020

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“…The dung bait was suspended over the cup, protected with a rain cover, and left for 48 h before collection. Bag traps (Arellano , Goh and Hashim ), designed to capture dung beetles exploiting the dung to form brood balls or balls buried for feeding, were made from large agricultural plastic bags with drainage holes in the bottom, buried in the ground, and back‐filled with approximately 70 L of soil (0.45 × 0.45 m). Bags were buried flush with the soil surface; mammal dung was placed on top of the soil inside the bag and left for 24 h. Upon collection, the bags were sealed, and dung beetles collected by sifting through the soil onto a white sheet.…”

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Extinctions of interactions: quantifying a dung beetle–mammal network

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Loss of large‐bodied mammals across the globe through hunting, habitat degradation, and fragmentation is one of the most significant anthropogenic impacts on the environment. Cascading effects of these extinctions through ecosystems have been little studied, although correlative studies have revealed co‐extinctions in closely linked groups, with implications for ecosystem structure and function. Despite playing important roles in seed dispersal and hence seedling recruitment, mammals have been largely neglected in network studies. Similarly, the role of secondary seed dispersers, such as ants and dung beetles, has been largely unexplored. Most dung beetles rely on mammal feces for feeding and breeding and provide a suite of important ecosystem functions and services. While dung beetle community responses to environmental change have been widely investigated, studies quantifying the network of associations between dung beetle and mammal species are lacking. By developing the first quantitative mammal–dung beetle networks, we address several important knowledge gaps contributing to the understanding of how interactions in networks involving mammals and secondary insect seed dispersers are structured. We use the resulting quantitative interaction networks to model mammal species extinction scenarios to further explore the consequences for dung beetle populations, and the extent to which networks change the strength of interactions through resource switching. Dung beetle feeding and breeding networks did not differ significantly in structure and showed high nestedness and low levels of trophic specialization. Simulations suggested that mammal extinction scenarios based on mammal body mass and mammal dung volume will impact dung beetle populations to a greater extent than random scenarios of mammal loss. Thus, despite their generalist feeding preferences, realistic mammal extinction scenarios have the potential to negatively impact the dung beetle community, which may have consequences for ecosystem functioning.

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“…The difference in the total abundance and biomass of dung beetles collected between the two trap types suggests that pitfall traps may give an overestimate if used to approximate the extent of ecosystem functions provided by dung beetles. However, burial intercept traps do not reliably capture rolling dung beetles (Arellano, ; Goh & Hashim, ), so alternative methods are needed to estimate how dung removal varies among dung beetle guilds in systems where rolling beetles make up a larger proportion of the dung beetle community.…”

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Linking dung beetle‐mediated functions to interactions in the Atlantic Forest: Sampling design matters

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A Comparison of the Dung Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Collecting Performance of Pitfall Traps and Burrowing Interception Traps

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Dung beetle assemblages in lowland forests of Pangandaran Nature Reserve, West Java, Indonesia

Dung beetle assemblages in lowland forests of Pangandaran Nature Reserve, West Java, Indonesia

Extinctions of interactions: quantifying a dung beetle–mammal network

Linking dung beetle‐mediated functions to interactions in the Atlantic Forest: Sampling design matters

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