• Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification 

    Ari Noriega, Jorge; Hortal, Joaquín; deCastro-Arrazola, Indradatta; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Ortega, Jean C. G.; Bini, Luis Mauricio; Andrew, Nigel R.; Arellano, Lucrecia; Beynon, Sarah; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Favila, Mario E.; Floate, Kevin D.; Horgan, Finbarr G.; Menéndez, Rosa; Milotic, Tanja; Nervo, Beatrice; Palestrini, Claudia; Rolando, Antonio; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Senyüz, Yakup; Wassmer, Thomas; Ádam, Réka; Araújo, Cristina de O.; Barragan-Ramírez, José Luis; Santos, Ana M. C. (2023)
    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, ...

  • Insect elevational specialization in a tropical biodiversity hotspot 

    Macedo, Margarete V.; Monteiro, Ricardo F.; Flinte, Vivian; Almeida-Neto, Mario; Khattar, Gabriel; Silveira, Luiz F. L. da; Araújo, Cristina de O.; Araujo-Oliveira, Rodrigo; Colares, Carolina; Gomes, Carlos V. S.; Mendes, Clarice B.; Santos, Eduardo F.; Mayhew, Peter J. (2018)
    1. Tropical montane organisms are vulnerable to climate change because of elevational specialisation, but little is known of the variability in elevational specialisation across tropical insects. 2. We assessed elevational ...