@article {1519,
	title = {Fauna de coleopteros Scarabaeidae Laparosticti y Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) asociados al bosque mesofilo de montana, cafetales bajo sombra y comunidades derivadas en el centro de Veracruz, Mexico},
	journal = {Neotropical Entomology},
	volume = {36},
	number = {1},
	year = {2007},
	month = {Jan/Feb},
	pages = {5-21},
	abstract = {Beetles were collected from April 2002 to July 2003 from the following sites in the centre of the state of Veracruz located every 200 m along an altitudinal gradient (1000 {\textendash} 1400 m asl): three fragments of cloud forest, three shaded coffee plantations, an open canopy coffee plantation, secondary forest, and a pasture. A total of 9,982 specimens were captured, belonging to the families Scarabaeidae and Trogidae, and representing 21 genera and 50 species. The genera Ataenius Harold, Onthophagus Latreille and Aphodius Illiger represented 48\% of the species of Scarabaeidae. Species richness was found to decrease with increasing altitude; there were 36 species at 1000 m asl, 27 species between 1200 and 1300 m asl, and 26 species at 1400 m asl. Abundance along the altitudinal gradient follows a pattern of few abundant species and many species with few specimens. Beetle activity is related to precipitation. In the nine communities studied, species richness was observed to increase when precipitation was greater than 100 mm at the beginning of the rainy season. On the landscape scale, there were 44 species during the rainy season, 22 during the windy nortes season, and 24 during the dry season. In terms of trophic guild, 40\% of the beetles captured were saprophagous that feed on decomposing organic material from plants and 60\% were saprophagous that feed on decomposing organic material from animals (30\% necrophagous, 26\% coprophagous, 4\% telio-necrophagous). },
	keywords = {beetle, coprophagous, necrophagous, saprophagous, trophic guild},
	author = {DeLoya, Cuauhtemoc and Parra-Tabla, Victor and Delfin-Gonzalez, Hugo}
}
@article {1553,
	title = {Seasonal-Variation in the Dung of African Grazing Mammals, and Its Consequences for Coprophagous Insects},
	journal = {Functional Ecology},
	volume = {5},
	number = {5},
	year = {1991},
	note = {Times Cited: 13Cited Reference Count: 0EnglishArticleGL110FUNCT ECOL},
	pages = {617-628},
	abstract = {The dung of African grazing mammals varies in nutrient and moisture content according to the condition of the pasture on which the animals feed. This study investigated the effect of variation in quality of herbivore dung on the survival and reproduction of coprophagous insects. Seasonal variation was recorded in physical and chemical characteristics of zebra, wildebeest and impala dung. Dung was collected from free- ranging animals grazing in natural habitat in Mkuzi Game Reserve, a hot summer-rainfall region of South Africa. Interspecific differences in dung were related to the feeding ecology, digestive physiology and size of each species. Seasonal changes in water and nitrogen content of dung were related to patterns of rainfall and hence pasture growth. Dung moisture was significantly correlated with the amount of rain that fell in the preceding 2 weeks for wildebeest, in the preceding 4 weeks for impala and in the period 2-6 weeks before collection for zebra dung. Seasonal variability in wildebeest dung affected the reproductive rate of the dung beetle Euoniticellus intermedius (Reiche). Egg production at 25- degrees-C ranged from 0.1 per female per week in winter dung to 12.1 in summer dung, and was significantly correlated with dung moisture. Euoniticellus intermedius and the African buffalo fly Haematobia thirouxi potans (Bezzi) could not breed in fresh wildebeest dung of 62\% water content. However when the water content was raised to 68\% and above, breeding by Euoniticellus intermedius increased; and at moisture contents of 73\% and above, buffalo fly size increased and survival improved. Higher water content was correlated with an increase in availability of dung fluid, the component of dung used by these insects.},
	keywords = {African herbivores, coprophagous, Dung, Dung beetles, food-, impala, quality, wildebeest, zebra},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1991GL11000006},
	author = {Edwards, P. B.}
}
@article {1599,
	title = {Les Coléoptères Scarabaeoidea coprophages (Aphodiidae et Scarabaeidae) de la région d{\textquoteright}Essaouira (Sud-Ouest Marocain): inventaire et écologie},
	journal = {Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de l{\textquoteright}Ouest de la France (nouvelle serie)},
	volume = {28},
	number = {1},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {1-22},
	keywords = {Aphodiidae, coprophagous, Essaouira, inventory, Paleartic region, Scarabaeidae, Southwestern Morocco},
	author = {Faucheux, Michel J. and Meurgey, Francois and El Wahbi, Youssef}
}
@article {1777,
	title = {What do dung beetles eat?},
	journal = {Ecological Entomology},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {690-697},
	abstract = {    1.   Most adult coprophagous beetles feed on fresh dung of mammalian herbivores, confining ingestion to small particles with measured maximum diameters from 2 {\textendash} 5 to 130  },
	keywords = {Assimilable carbon, C/N ratio, coprophagous, food exploitation, nitrogen, selective feeding},
	author = {Holter, Peter and Scholtz, Clarke H.}
}
@article {2039,
	title = {Beosuros coprofagos (Coleoptera; Scarabaeoidea) presentes nas pastagens do campo experimental da Embrapa gado de leite, no municipio de Coronel Pacheco, Minas Gerais},
	journal = {Resumos - XXIX Semana de Biologia e XII Mostra de Producao Cientifica - UFJF},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {29-31},
	keywords = {COLEOPTERA, coprophagous, horn fly},
	author = {Monteiro, Caio Marcio de Oliveira and Koller, Wilson W. and dos Reis, Eder Sebastiao}
}
@article {2309,
	title = {Contribution a la connaissance des scarabeides coprophages du Gabon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). VIII. Le peuplement forestier de la region de Bifoun: donnees bio-ecologiques},
	journal = {Elytron},
	volume = {5},
	number = {1},
	year = {1991},
	pages = {115-123},
	keywords = {bioecology, COLEOPTERA, coprophagous, gabon, Scarabaeidae},
	author = {Walter, Philippe}
}
