| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Authors: | P. Holter, Scholtz C. H. |
| Journal: | Ecological Entomology |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Pagination: | 690-697 |
| Keywords: | Assimilable carbon, C/N ratio, coprophagous, food exploitation, nitrogen, selective feeding |
| Abstract: | 1. Most adult coprophagous beetles feed on fresh dung of mammalian herbivores, confining ingestion to small particles with measured maximum diameters from 2 – 5 to 130 |