@article {1436,
	title = {A comparison of Passalidae (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia) diversity and community structure between primary and secondary tropical forest in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico},
	journal = {Biodiversity and Conservation},
	volume = {13},
	number = {7},
	year = {2004},
	note = {PDF},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {1257-1269},
	abstract = {Comparison of the diversity and community structure of Coleoptera (Passalidae) collected in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico, in primary and secondary tropical forest has been carried out. The saproxylophagous beetles studied can be differentiated according to their presence in three distinct microhabitats of rotting logs: underbark, sapwood - heartwood and microhabitat generalists. Over the 2-year study period, 12 passalid species were recorded (six Passalini and six Proculini) represented by a total of 2971 individuals, collected from 234 rotting logs. The rarefaction method, the lognormal species - abundance relationship, and the nonparametric jackknife method were used to compare species richness between the habitats. The data were also fitted to log series, truncated lognormal, geometric, and broken-stick species abundance models to detect changes in community structure. The community composition of Passalidae in Los Tuxtlas did not differ ostensibly between the primary and secondary forests. Neither the mean number of individuals nor the biomass per log differed significantly. Furthermore, there were no significant differences between the two habitats in terms of the number of underbark, sapwood/heartwood, and microhabitat generalist species. Different richness estimators indicated that the primary forest community is only slightly richer. The slight decrease in richness of the secondary forest is related to a decrease in dominance by certain species, as well as to a more balanced abundance distribution, which is adequately described by the broken-stick model. Complementary explanations for this pattern may be: ( 1) that logging reduces the abundance of dominant species, thus preventing competitive exclusion in the secondary forest; and ( 2) that passalid diversity is not regulated by the diversity of tree species.},
	keywords = {forest change biodiversity dung beetles},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000220213500002},
	author = {Castillo, M. L. and Lobo, J. M.}
}
@article {1704,
	title = {Beetle species{\textquoteright} responses suggest that microclimate mediates fragmentation effects in tropical Australian rainforest},
	journal = {Austral Ecology},
	volume = {31},
	number = {4},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {458-470},
	abstract = {Despite the enormous contribution of invertebrates to global biodiversity and ecosystem function, the patterns and causes of insect responses to tropical rainforest destruction and fragmentation remain poorly understood. We studied the responses of beetles to these factors in a fragmented upland rainforest landscape in north-east Queensland, Australia. Beetles were sampled using flight interception traps from six replicate sites in rainforest interior, rainforest edge, small rainforest remnants and pasture, interspersed across about 600 km(2). Beetles from 10 family/subfamily groups were sorted to species. There were three major findings. First, converting rainforest into pasture has a very strong negative effect on beetle diversity and species composition. Very few beetle species were present in pasture and none of the most abundant species was more abundant in pasture than rainforest. Second, beetle assemblages appeared to respond to climate. Beetle species composition in drier rainforest habitats was different from that of moister rainforest and there were species unique to each rainforest type. Third, beetle species composition differed between small remnants and interior rainforest: drier-associated species were more abundant in small remnants, whereas wetter-associated species were more abundant in interiors. Edges tended to be intermediate. We argue that this pattern can be attributed to a fragmentation effect mediated by differences in microclimate rather than by floristic, structural, or area and isolation effects.},
	keywords = {forest change biodiversity dung beetles},
	author = {Grimbacher, P. S. and Catterall, C. P. and Kitching, R. L.}
}
@article {1770,
	title = {The Response of Some Rain-Forest Insect Groups to Logging and Conversion to Plantation},
	journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences},
	volume = {335},
	number = {1275},
	year = {1992},
	note = {HN461PHIL TRANS ROY SOC LONDON B},
	month = {Mar 30},
	pages = {425-436},
	abstract = {Data and analyses from pilot studies in the Danum area of Sabah, East Malaysia, and elsewhere in the Indo-Australian tropics are used to measure the effects of logging and other human disturbance, such as conversion to plantation, on insect diversity. The two insect groups studied have very different trophic requirements: moths, with floristically specific herbivory, and dung and carrion beetles, exploiting resources of much more uniform quality over different forest systems. Moths show significant loss of diversity and taxonomic quality with disturbance and conversion to plantation. The beetles show much less change in diversity and faunistic composition. The implications for conservation of biodiversity are discussed, and suggestions for further work are made.},
	keywords = {forest change biodiversity dung beetles},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1992HN46100011},
	author = {Holloway, J. D. and Kirkspriggs, A. H. and Khen, C. V.}
}
@article {1639,
	title = {A framework for assessment and monitoring of arthropods in a lowland tropical forest},
	journal = {Environmental Monitoring and Assessment},
	volume = {76},
	number = {1},
	year = {2002},
	note = {545JKENVIRON MONIT ASSESS},
	month = {May},
	pages = {43-53},
	abstract = {By applying principles of adaptive management, and by using the valuable information that arthropods provide from assessment and monitoring programs, managers can identify and reduce possible impacts on biodiversity in development projects. In 1996, the Smithsonian Institution{\textquoteright}s Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity program worked together with Shell Prospecting and Development Peru to establish an adaptive management program to protect biodiversity in a natural gas exploration project in a Peruvian rainforest. In this paper, we outlined the conceptual steps involved in establishing an assessment and monitoring program for arthropods, including setting objectives, evaluating the results and making decisions. We also present the results of the assessment using some of groups of arthropods, and summarize the steps taken to identify appropriate groups for monitoring.},
	keywords = {forest change biodiversity dung beetles},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000175213600003},
	author = {Finnamore, A. and Alonso, A. and Santisteban, J. and Cordova, S. and Valencia, G. and De La Cruz, A. and Polo, R.}
}
@article {2175,
	title = {Comparison of Coleoptera assemblages from a recently burned and unburned black spruce forests of northeastern North America},
	journal = {Biological Conservation},
	volume = {118},
	number = {5},
	year = {2004},
	note = {828TZBIOL CONSERV},
	month = {Aug},
	pages = {583-592},
	abstract = {Several insect groups have adapted to fire cycles in boreal forests, and can efficiently use new habitats created by fire. Our study aimed at producing a first characterization of post- fire Coleoptera assemblages of black spruce forests of eastern North America. For two years, we sampled Coleoptera using flight-interception traps in burned stands of contrasting age and structure in a 5097-ha wildfire and in neighbouring unburned mature stands. More than 40 species were exclusively captured in burned stands. Time elapsed since fire and proximity of unburned forests were the most significant parameters affecting Coleoptera assemblages. Stand age and structure had limited effects on assemblage structure; the Scolytid Polygraphus rufipennis Kirby was the only common species to clearly favor older stands. Fire-associated Coleoptera assemblages found in our study area were clearly distinct from those found in similar unburned stands; we should thus be conservative in our management approach concerning recently burned stands. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {forest change biodiversity dung beetles},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000221997500003},
	author = {Saint-Germain, M. and Drapeau, P. and Hebert, C.}
}
@inbook {2221,
	title = {Indicator taxa in the vanishing tropics},
	booktitle = {Conservation in a changing world},
	year = {1998},
	pages = {181-210},
	publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
	organization = {Cambridge University Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	keywords = {forest change biodiversity dung beetles},
	author = {Spector, S. and Forsyth, A. B.},
	editor = {Balmford, A. and Mace, G.}
}
