@article {1414,
	title = {R{\^o}le des coleopteres Scarabaeidae dans l{\textquoteright}enfouissement des excrements en savane guin{\'e}enne de C{\^o}te-d{\textquoteright}Ivoire},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {7},
	number = {1},
	year = {1986},
	pages = {17-25},
	author = {Cambefort}
}
@article {1420,
	title = {Body-Size, Abundance, and Geographical-Distribution of Afrotropical Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {15},
	number = {2},
	year = {1994},
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	pages = {165-179},
	abstract = {Local and regional abundances of Afrotropical dung beetle species, as well as their regional and continental distributions, have been found to depend on their average individual fresh weight. At the local and regional scales, small-bodied species are numerically more abundant than their larger relatives, but large-bodied species have a larger total biomass and control a larger proportion of available resources. At the regional scale, large dung beetle species occur in fewer localities than small ones, but, at the continental scale, geographical distribution is wider.},
	keywords = {abundance, afrotropical region, beetles, biomass, communities, Dung, dynamics, energy use, energy-use, geographical distribution, natural animal assemblages, patterns, population-density, size},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://A1994PJ66600005},
	author = {Cambefort, Y.}
}
@article {1486,
	title = {Community organization in a South African, winter rainfall, dung beetle assemblage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {15},
	number = {6},
	year = {1994},
	pages = {727-738},
	keywords = {assemblage, community, Dung, Scarabaeidae, south africa, winter rainfall},
	author = {Davis, Adrian L. V.}
}
@article {1489,
	title = {Daily weather variation and temporal dynamics in an Afrotropical dung beetle community (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {16},
	number = {6},
	year = {1995},
	note = {1995 (1996)ArticleEnglish},
	pages = {641-656},
	abstract = {The influence of weather on dung beetle community dynamics was studied in grassland, open woodland and thickets in Gauteng Province, South Africa. To avoid seasonal effects, sampling was restricted to 18 days during November and December. An examination was made both of dung beetle responses to physical variables and of daily changes in their community structure between habitat patches (dung-baited traps). Recruitment of general adults showed a weaker response to physical variables (rainfall, soil hardness, radiant heat, sub-surface soil temperature) than activity of mature adults which was most frequently correlated to rainfall. There was a range in species responses to rainfall from much higher proportional abundance on moist days to somewhat greater abundance on drier days. Such variable responses led to daily changes in the proportional abundance of moist-adapted and dry-tolerant species groups. Daily changes from low to high species richness were also associated with increased rainfall. These changes led to increased diversity and greater functional complexity of the numerically dominant species component. Abundance of most numerically dominant species increased from low to high species richness. Their rank position either increased, decreased or remained similar. It is concluded that during the summer rainy season, incidence of rainfall is an important determinant of temporal dynamics in dung beetle community structure between habitat patches.},
	keywords = {Animalia-, Arthropoda-, Climatology- (Environmental-Sciences), Coleoptera- (Coleoptera-), Coleoptera-: Insecta-, Digestive-System (Ingestion-and-Assimilation), Ecology- (Environmental-Sciences), Invertebrata-, P, Physiology-, Plantae-Unspecified: Plantae-},
	author = {Davis, Adrian L. V.}
}
@article {1894,
	title = {Changes in the structure of dung insect communities after ivermectin usage in a grasslansd  ecosystem. II. Impact of ivermectin under high-rainfall conditions},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {19},
	number = {5},
	year = {1998},
	pages = {439-451},
	keywords = {avermectin, dung beetle, ecotoxicity, longer-term study, non-target organisms},
	author = {Kruger, K. and Scholtz, Clarke H.}
}
@article {2010,
	title = {Heterotrophic succession within dung-inhabiting beetle communities in northern Spain},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {20},
	number = {5},
	year = {1999},
	month = {june},
	pages = {527-535},
	keywords = {competition, Dung pats, dung-inhabiting beetles, food availability, heterotrophic succession, null model},
	author = {Menendez, Rosa and Gutierrez, David}
}
@article {2313,
	title = {Selection of the spatial habitat of Coprophagous beetles in the Kaiserstuhl area near Freiburg (SE-Germany)},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {16},
	number = {4},
	year = {1995},
	note = {1995ArticleEnglish},
	pages = {461-478},
	abstract = {1. In an all-year-round survey of coprophagous beetles in a pasture in the Kaiserstuhl area (SW-Germany), cow-pats and sheep lumps were gathered from two field areas and one wooded area twice a month. 40,298 beetles belonging to 40 species of Scarabaeoidea and 14 of Hydrophilidae were detected. The small site on the Kaiserstuhl has the highest species diversity of Scarabaeoidea species among all local dung beetle coenoses described in Europe thus far. 2. In all seasons of the year, population density and biomass of dung beetles were higher on the open pastures than in the wooded pasture. Only in summer and on the coldest days of winter, values of both macrohabitats were approximately the same, which might be due to the mediated climate of wooded habitats in those seasons. 3. 11 out of 29 abundant species showed a clear preference for open macrohabitats, while only four preferred the wooded macrohabitat. All other species were eurytopic. Faunistic similarity was low among all three macrohabitats and did not show closer relationships between the two open pastures than between both of them and the wooded pasture. 4. Sheep lumps were more densely populated than cow-pats, whereas the latter contained a higher biomass in dung beetles. The cow-pat community was higher in species number as well as in diversity. Faunistic similarity between both dung beetle communities was minimal. 5. 13 out of 32 abundant dung beetle species preferred each dung type. Mean size of Scarabaeoidea dung beetles preferring sheep lumps was significantly lower than of those preferring cow-pats. Regardless their size difference, all but one Hydrophilidae species showed a pronounced preference for cow-pats. 6. Selection of the spatial habitats played a minor role in compartmentation of the total niche space of the dung beetle community as compared to temporal niche dimensions such as seasonality. As in the case of seasonality, Aphodius was best separated within the genus.},
	keywords = {Animalia-, Arthropoda-, Bovidae-: Artiodactyla-, Chordata-, Climatology- (Environmental-Sciences), Coleoptera-: Insecta-, cow- (Bovi, Ecology- (Environmental-Sciences), Invertebrata-, Mammalia-, Metabolism-, Nutrition-, Physiology-, Vertebrata-},
	author = {Wassmer, Thomas}
}
@article {2358,
	title = {Consequences of individual species loss in biodiversity experiments: an essentiality indez},
	journal = {Acta Oecologica},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {236-242},
	abstract = {The importance of species richness for ecosystem productivity has received much atten- tion in recent years, but the consequences of non-random species extinction remain poorly understood. We propose an index, {\textquoteleft}essentiality{\textquoteright}, to assess the consequence of extinction of particular species for community biomass production. The essentiality of a species in a given community is the extent to which the functional role of that species is irreplaceable by the remaining species, calculated as the relative difference in yields between communi- ties with and without the focal species. Species with zero essentiality play a completely re- placeable functional role in their communities. Positive essentialities suggest irreplaceable contributions by species to their communities; species with essentiality values even higher than their dominance in the community may exhibit facilitative effects on the other spe- cies. Negative essentialities indicate interference of the focal species with other members of the same community. We applied this index to data from a microcosm experiment, in which five algal species were grown in monocultures and in all possible species combina- tions. Essentiality varied greatly across species. Two species had overall zero essentiality values throughout the experiment, two species had positive essentiality values which were lower than the species{\textquoteright} dominance, and the remaining species had negative essenti- ality. Furthermore, two out of the five species had essentiality values dependent on species richness of communities from which they were lost; essentiality decreased with an in- crease in species richness. The essentiality index provides a straightforward measurement of functional consequences of individual species loss, which complements the existing an- alytical methods by focusing on the detection of facilitation and interference. },
	keywords = {Algal microcosm, complementarity, productivity, selection effect, Species diversity},
	author = {Zhang, Quan-Guo and Zhang, Da-Yong}
}
