Scarabaeinae
National Institutes of Health
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Scarabaeine dung beetles are the dominant dung feeding group of insects and are widely used as model organisms in conservation…
The Neotropical genus Coprophanaeus Olsoufieff (1924), as classified here, comprises 38 species distributed among three subgenera…
The objective of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of all published and unpublished (more than 50% of the…
Clear understanding of the links between ecological functions and biodiversity is needed to assess and predict the true…
We studied the diversity of dung beetles in three different habitats in the Lacandona Forest, Chiapas, Mexico. We found a total…
1. Secondary and plantation forests are becoming increasingly widespread in the tropics. A recent meta-analysis on the impacts of…
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