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Nutrient quality of vertebrate dung as a diet for dung beetles

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Linking functional group richness and ecosystem functions of dung beetles: an experimental quantification

(2016) Tanja Milotić et al.   OECOLOGIA

Complementarity of dung beetle species with different functional behaviours influence dung–soil carbon cycling

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Effects of the Activity of Coprophagous Insects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cattle Dung Pats and Changes in Amounts of Nitrogen, Carbon, and Energy

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An insect ecosystem engineer alleviates drought stress in plants without increasing plant susceptibility to an above-ground herbivore

(2015) Scott N. Johnson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Disentangling the ‘brown world’ faecal-detritus interaction web: dung beetle effects on soil microbial properties

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(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

Long-term vegetation dynamics driven by climatic variations in the Inner Mongolia grassland: findings from 30-year monitoring

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The Effects of Body Mass on Dung Removal Efficiency in Dung Beetles

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(2014) Yajun Hu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Interactions between C : N : P stoichiometry and soil macrofauna control dung decomposition of savanna herbivores

(2013) Judith Sitters et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying Beetle-Mediated Effects on Gas Fluxes from Dung Pats

(2013) Atte Penttilä et al.   PLoS One

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

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(2012) Sarah A. Beynon et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Large herbivores may alter vegetation structure of semi-arid savannas through soil nutrient mediation

(2011) Cornelis van der Waal et al.   OECOLOGIA

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(2010) Jacqueline Brown et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

A brown-world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: effects of predator interactions and warming

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