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Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless...
Noriega, Jorge Ari; Hortal, Joaquín; deCastro-Arrazola, Indradatta; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Ortega, Jean C. G.; Bini, Luis Mauricio; Andrew, Nigel R.Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally reduces species and functional diversity of terrestrial invertebrates, which may negatively affect ecosystem services. Here, we investigate the effects of cattle-grazing intensification on dung removal by dung beetles in field experiments replicated in 38 p...
Aridity drives the loss of dung beetle taxonomic and functional diversity in th...
Castro Sánchez‐Bermejo, Pablo; deCastro‐Arrazola, Indradatta; Cuesta, Eva; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Moreno, Claudia E.; Sánchez‐Piñero, FranciscoAim Aridity gradients are of great interest for understanding the responses of biodiversity to water availability and water stress. However, little is known about the responses of many animal groups, which are crucial for assessing the effects of climate change. Here, we study the effects of aridity on dung beetle communities, a group with well-known responses to large-scale environmental gradients. Location Sa...
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In C...
Hudson, Lawrence N; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L L; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R P; Alhusseini, Tamera IThe PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical mod...