M. L.  Castillo and Lobo, J. M., ?A comparison of Passalidae (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia) diversity and community structure between primary and secondary tropical forest in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico?, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 13, pp. 1257-1269, 2004.

J.  Hortal, Lobo, J. M., and Martin-Piera, F., ?Forecasting insect species richness scores in poorly surveyed territories: the case of the Portuguese dung beetles (Col. Scarabaeinae)?, Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 10, pp. 1343-1367, 2001.

P.  Jay-Robert, Lobo, J. M., and Lumaret, J. P., ?Does the populating of Corsica by dung beetles result from interspecific competition??, Annales De La Societe Entomologique De France, vol. 35, pp. 290-298, 1999.

N.  Kadiri, Lobo, J. M., and Lumaret, J. P., ?Conséquences de l?interaction entre préférences pour l?habitat et quantite´ de ressources trophiques sur les communaute´s d?insectes coprophages (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)?, Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology, vol. 18, pp. 107-119, 1997.

J. M.  Lobo, ?Estimation of Dung Beetle Biomass (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)?, European Journal of Entomology, vol. 90, pp. 235-238, 1993.

J. M.  Lobo, ?The Relationship between Distribution and Abundance in a Dung- Beetle Community (Col, Scarabaeoidea)?, Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology, vol. 14, pp. 43-55, 1993.

J. M.  Lobo, ?Diversity, biogeographical considerations and spatial structure of a recently invaded dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) community in the Chihuahuan desert?, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, vol. 5, pp. 342-352, 1996.

J. M.  Lobo and Favila, M. E., ?Different ways of constructing octaves and their consequences on the prevalence of the bimodal species abundance distribution?, Oikos, vol. 87, pp. 321-326, 1999.

J. M.  Lobo and Halffter, G., ?Biogeographical and ecological factors affecting the altitudinal variation of mountainous communities of coprophagous beetles (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea): a comparative study?, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 93, pp. 115-126, 2000.

J. M.  Lobo, Lumaret, J. P., and Jay-Robert, P., ?Sampling dung beetles in the French Mediterranean area: Effects of abiotic factors and farm practices?, Pedobiologia, vol. 42, pp. 252-266, 1998.

J. M.  Lobo, Lumaret, J. P., and Jay-Robert, P., ?Modelling the species richness distribution of French dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) and delimiting the predictive capacity of different groups of explanatory variables?, Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 11, pp. 265-277, 2002.

J. M.  Lobo and Martin-Piera, F., ?Between-group differences in the Iberian dung beetle species-area relationship (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae)?, Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology, vol. 20, pp. 587-597, 1999.

J. M.  Lobo and Martin-Piera, F., ?Searching for a predictive model for species richness of Iberian dung beetle based on spatial and environmental variables?, Conservation Biology, vol. 16, pp. 158-173, 2002.

F.  Martin-Piera and Lobo, J. M., ?A comparative discussion of trophic preferences in dung beetle communities?, Miscellania Zoologica Barcelona, vol. 19, pp. 13-31, 1996.