@article {2368,
	title = {Co-declines in large mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade},
	journal = {Oikos},
	volume = {118},
	year = {2009},
	note = {[gmap markers=blank::40.782003745886755,-73.97163391113281 |zoom=15 |center=40.78531820515752,-73.9749813079834 |width=100\% |height=400px |control=Small |type=Satellite]
},
	pages = {481-487},
	abstract = {Biodiversity loss can precipitate extinction cascades and impair ecological processes. These {\textquoteleft}downstream{\textquoteright} effects will be exacerbated if functionally important taxa are tightly linked with species threatened by extinction or population decline. We review the current evidence that such a scenario is currently playing out in the linked declines of persistently hunted<br />
mammal populations and the dung beetles communities (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) that depend on them for adult and larval food resources. Through a close evolutionary association, mammal assemblages have played a fundamental role in structuring extant dung beetle communities. Today many game mammal species{\textquoteright} populations are severely depleted by subsistence or commercial hunting, especially in tropical forest systems. Multiple lines of evidence from temperate and tropical systems indicate that the regional-scale decline or extirpation of medium and large bodied mammal faunas can severely disrupt the diversity and abundance of dung beetle communities through alterations in the composition and availability of dung resources. These observed community disassemblies have significant short- and long-term implications for the maintenance of key ecosystem processes including nutrient recycling and secondary seed dispersal. Identifying the species- and community-level traits that buffer or exacerbate these species and functional responses is essential if we are to develop a better understanding of the cascading ecological consequences of hunting in tropical forests.
},
	keywords = {co-decline, conservation, decline, extinction, mammal, resource},
	author = {Nichols, E. and Gardner, T. A. and Peres, C. A. and Spector, S.}
}
@article {1636,
	title = {Experimental investigations of colonisation by north temperate dung beetles of different types of domestic herbivore dung},
	journal = {Applied Soil Ecology},
	volume = {20},
	number = {1},
	year = {2002},
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	month = {Apr},
	pages = {1-13},
	abstract = {Field experiments investigated the colonisation by a north temperate dung beetle community (Aphodius, Geotrupes and Sphaeridium species) of artificial, standardised (11) dung pats from native herbivore species (cow, horse and sheep). An additional experiment compared the colonisation by dung beetles of five different types of cow dung. These experiments did not examine naturally occurring dung pats, but used experimental dung pats to examine the ability of north temperate dung beetles to discriminate among different dung types. A small number of laboratory experiments investigated pat residence times (PRT) and larval production across different dung types. There were significant differences in the biomass and abundance of dung beetle colonisation across different dung types. Sheep dung tended to have highest abundances of beetles, but there was evidence of species-specific differences in dung beetle colonisation of the different kinds of dung. In two out of three comparisons, laboratory experiments provided evidence that adult PRT were significantly different among different kinds of dung. In each of three laboratory experiments, larval production was significantly higher in sheep than cow dung pats of the same size. The relevance of these findings to the interpretation of what constitutes a dung type preference is discussed. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {abundance, aphodius, assemblage, cattle dung, COLEOPTERA, colonisation, disappearance, dung beetle, Onthophagus, resource, resource utilization, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeoidea, seasonal-changes, utilisation},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000177123900001},
	author = {Finn, J. A. and Giller, P. S.}
}
@article {1997,
	title = {La biogeograf{\'\i}a ecol{\'o}gia de los escarabajos del esti{\'e}rcol},
	journal = {Acta Polit{\'e}cnica Mexicana},
	volume = {16},
	number = {72},
	year = {1975},
	note = {requested 1/23},
	pages = {89-98},
	keywords = {dung beetle, food, mammal, mammals, resource},
	author = {Matthews, E. G.}
}
@article {2344,
	title = {An annotated list of the arthropods found in burrows of the Florida Gopher Tortise (Gopherus polyphemus) (Daudin)},
	journal = {Florida Entomologist},
	volume = {22},
	number = {4},
	year = {1939},
	note = {have copy, need to scan},
	pages = {53-62},
	keywords = {dung beetle, food, Invertebrates-, mammals, reptile, resource},
	author = {Young, F. N and Goff, C. C}
}
