@mastersthesis {1394,
	title = {An ecological investigation of the insects asociated with exposed carcasses in northern Kruger National Park: A study of populatios and communities},
	volume = {Ph.D},
	year = {1984},
	note = {need copy},
	school = {University of Natal},
	address = {Pietermaritzburg, South Africa},
	keywords = {carrion, dung beetle, food resources, non-mammal resource mammals},
	author = {Braack, L. E. O}
}
@article {1785,
	title = {Dung beetle assemblages in forests and pastures of El Salvador: a functional comparison},
	journal = {Biodiversity Conservation},
	volume = {17},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {2961-2978},
	abstract = {This study examines the functional attributes of Neotropical dung beetles, and, based on the analysis, evaluates the role of dung beetles in pastures and tropical dry forest in El Salvador. Dung beetle diversity was lower in pastures than in forests. However, the total biomass of beetles at similarly-sized dung baits was frequently higher in pastures. Diversity loss followed structured patterns: (1) carrion and fruit feeding beetles were well represented (species number) in the forests but were largely absent from pastures; (2) large ball rollers and small fast tunnellers were present in forests but were absent from pastures; (3) large fast tunnellers and small slow tunnellers were poorly represented in pastures com- pared to forests but the few species that survived in pastures attained extremely high popu- lations; and (4) each functional group in the species-poor pasture assemblages was divided almost equally into day and night active species. Substrate and habitat generalists that were present in both the forests and pastures were attracted to fruit and carrion in forested habitat but not in open pastures. In open habitats, Xies and other insects may be the principal decomposers of decaying fruit and carrion. },
	keywords = {carrion, decomposition, deforestation, Diversity-function, functional groups, guilds, Scarabaeidae, tropical pastures},
	author = {Horgan, Finbarr G}
}
@article {2352,
	title = {Laboratory studies on the feeding behavior of the putative dung beetle, Ateuchus histeroides (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)},
	journal = {Journal of the New York Entomological Society},
	volume = {114},
	number = {3},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {157-169},
	abstract = {Abstract.{\textemdash}Through a series of laboratory feeding trials, it was demonstrated that the putative dung beetle, Ateuchus histeroides Weber (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), is a consumer of both vertebrate dung and insect carrion, and that it can produce progeny reared on either of those foods. There was no significant difference between the survival periods of adults maintained on either cow dung or dead insects, but both groups survived significantly longer than a group deprived of food. This is the first documentation of both dung and carrion feeding and subsequent progeny production for a member of this genus. },
	keywords = {Ateuchus histeroides, carrion, dead insects, Dung, longevity, progeny., Scarabaeidae, starvation},
	author = {Young, Orrey P.}
}
