Herbivore dung as food for dung beetles: elementary coprology for entomologists

Faecal nitrogen of browser and mixed feeder game species during different seasons

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Comparison of acetyl bromide lignin with acid detergent lignin and Klason lignin and correlation with in vitro forage degradability

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Faecal particle size: Digestive physiology meets herbivore diversity

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The application of an ecosystem services framework to estimate the economic value of dung beetles to the U.K. cattle industry

(2015) SARAH A. BEYNON et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Onsite and online FT-NIR spectroscopy for the estimation of total nitrogen and moisture content in poultry manure

(2015) E. Tamburini et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

High Genetic Diversity of Microbial Cellulase and Hemicellulase Genes in the Hindgut of Holotrichia parallela Larvae

(2015) Ping Sheng et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

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(2015) Jeremy J. Midgley et al.   Nature Plants

Differences between beetle communities colonizing cattle and horse dung

(2014) Radoslaw MROCZYNSKI et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Bioactive metabolites from new or rare fimicolous fungi with antifungal activity against plant pathogenic fungi

(2014) Sabrina Sarrocco et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY

Attractiveness of Native Mammal’s Feces of Different Trophic Guilds to Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)

(2014) Juliano A. Bogoni et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

The role of the sun in the celestial compass of dung beetles

(2014) M. Dacke et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Acetyl Bromide Method Is Faster, Simpler and Presents Best Recovery of Lignin in Different Herbaceous Tissues than Klason and Thioglycolic Acid Methods

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The evolution of scarab beetles tracks the sequential rise of angiosperms and mammals

(2014) D. Ahrens et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of litter-feeding macroarthropods in decomposition processes: A reappraisal of common views

(2014) J.F. David   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Glycolytic Activities in the Larval Digestive Tract of Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2014) Noriko Wada et al.   Insects

Technical note: Use of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy to assess nitrogen and carbon fractions in dairy cow feces

(2013) Birgül Althaus et al.   ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Do dung beetle larvae need microbial symbionts from their parents to feed on dung?

(2013) MARCUS J. BYRNE et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Elongated hindguts in desert-living dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) feeding on dry dung pellets or plant litter

(2013) Peter Holter et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Herbivory and Body Size: Allometries of Diet Quality and Gastrointestinal Physiology, and Implications for Herbivore Ecology and Dinosaur Gigantism

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Brood Ball-Mediated Transmission of Microbiome Members in the Dung Beetle, Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2013) Anne M. Estes et al.   PLoS One

Lignin: Characterization of a Multifaceted Crop Component

(2013) Michael Frei   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Faecal spectroscopy: a practical tool to assess diet quality in an opportunistic omnivore

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Insight into the antimicrobial activities of coprisin isolated from the dung beetle, Copris tripartitus, revealed by structure–activity relationships

(2012) Eunjung Lee et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Effect of cattle faeces with different microbial biomass content on soil properties, gaseous emissions and plant growth

(2012) Daphne Isabel Jost et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Extreme Variability of Steroid Profiles in Cow Feces and Pig Slurries at the Regional Scale: Implications for the Use of Steroids to Specify Fecal Pollution Sources in Waters

(2011) Morgane Derrien et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Condensing results of wet sieving analyses into a single data: a comparison of methods for particle size description

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Comparison of common lignin methods and modifications on forage and lignocellulosic biomass materials

(2011) Ben M Goff et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Characterization of fecal nitrogen forms produced by a sheep fed with 15N labeled ryegrass

(2011) C. Bosshard et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Determination of microbial biomass and fungal and bacterial distribution in cattle faeces

(2011) Daphne Isabel Jost et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes

(2009) P. Holter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Comparative chewing efficiency in mammalian herbivores

(2009) Julia Fritz et al.   OIKOS

Dung beetles as secondary seed dispersers in a temperate grassland

(2008) Bram D’hondt et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles

(2008) E. Nichols et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

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