2013
DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x-67.4.481
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The Dung- and Carrion-Feeding Scarabs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of an Amazonian Blackwater Rainforest: Results of a Continuous, 56-Week, Baited-PitfallTrap Study

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“…Regarding the trophic niche, dung beetles show different preferences, from species requiring specific resources (specialists or species with low trophic niche breadth) (Halffter & Matthews, ; Hanski & Cambefort, ; Bogoni & Hernandez, ) to species exploiting a large variety of resources (generalists or species with great trophic niche breadth) (Hanski & Cambefort, ; da Silva et al ., ). The food resources used by dung beetles include mammal dung (Ratcliffe, ), carrion of vertebrates and invertebrates (Silveira et al ., ; Larsen et al ., ; Ratcliffe, ), and other decomposed products such as fungi, fruit and eggs (Halffter & Matthews, ; Navarrete‐Heredia & Galindo‐Miranda, ; da Silva & Bogoni, ). In general, all trophic resources exploited by dung beetles are ephemeral and heterogeneously distributed (Inward et al ., ), promoting interspecific competition and the differentiation of the ecological niche among species (Hanski & Cambefort, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Regarding the trophic niche, dung beetles show different preferences, from species requiring specific resources (specialists or species with low trophic niche breadth) (Halffter & Matthews, ; Hanski & Cambefort, ; Bogoni & Hernandez, ) to species exploiting a large variety of resources (generalists or species with great trophic niche breadth) (Hanski & Cambefort, ; da Silva et al ., ). The food resources used by dung beetles include mammal dung (Ratcliffe, ), carrion of vertebrates and invertebrates (Silveira et al ., ; Larsen et al ., ; Ratcliffe, ), and other decomposed products such as fungi, fruit and eggs (Halffter & Matthews, ; Navarrete‐Heredia & Galindo‐Miranda, ; da Silva & Bogoni, ). In general, all trophic resources exploited by dung beetles are ephemeral and heterogeneously distributed (Inward et al ., ), promoting interspecific competition and the differentiation of the ecological niche among species (Hanski & Cambefort, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Brazil, few studies have evaluated dung beetle bait‐type associations. Some exceptions are studies in the Amazon (Ratcliffe ), Atlantic Forest (e.g. Filgueiras et al .…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) provide important environmental functions and services in natural and introduced ecosystems because they help nutrient cycling (Slade et al 2007;Yamada et al 2007), improve soil aeration (Mittal 1993;Bang et al 2005), reduce the population of parasitic flies (Braga et al 2012), help secondary seed dispersion (Pérez-Ramos et al 2007, 2013Braga et al 2013) and help establish seedlings (Lawson et al 2012). This large quantity of ecological functions arises because many dung beetle species have the habit of burying countless sources of food resources such as feces, carcasses, fungi, fruits and other sources of decomposing plant material (Halffter & Matthews 1966;Halffter & Halffter 2009).…”
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“…( D .) mamillatus ); Krajcik : 91; Larsen : 98; Noriega‐Alvarado & Navarrete‐Heredia : 191; Ratcliffe : 493, 504, 510, 511 (fig. 48); Martínez et al .…”
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