Ecological Archives E094-015-A1

Elizabeth Nichols, María Uriarte, Daniel E. Bunker, Mario E. Favila, Eleanor M. Slade, Kevina Vulinec, Trond Larsen, Fernando Z. Vaz-de-Mello, Julio Louzada, Shahid Naeem, Sacha H. Spector. 2013. Trait-dependent response of dung beetle populations to tropical forest conversion at local and regional scales. Ecology 94:180–189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-0251.1

Appendix A. Results of previous investigations of dung beetle species' trait correlates of response to the fragmentation or modification of moist tropical forests, using non-phylogenetically corrected analyses.

Table A1. Results of previous investigations of dung beetle species' trait correlates of response to the fragmentation (F) or modification (M) of moist tropical forests, using non-phylogenetically corrected analyses. Species traits significantly associated with species response are in bold. Traits marked with an asterisk are considered extrinsic sensu Violle et al. (2007). Study abbreviations are as follows: (1) Chapman et al. 2003, (2) Klein 1989, (3) Larsen et al. 2008, (4) Larsen et al. 2005, (5) Estrada and Coates Estrada 2002, (6) Andresen 2003, (7) Escobar and Chacon de Ulloa 2000, (8) Escobar 2004, (9) Pineda et al. 2005, (10) Shahabuddin et al. 2005, and (11) Slade et al. 2011.  ** Estrada and Coates Estrada 2002 reported that food relocation strategy and diel activity were nonsignificant predictors of species occupancy in forest fragments, yet were significantly associated with species abundance.

Reference Country Study
system
Species' traits tested Species
response
metric
1 Uganda F Functional group Abundance
(Body mass/ Food
relocation strategy)
2 Brazil F Weighted mean length Abundance
3 Venezuela F Food relocation strategy Occupancy
Activity period
Diet breadth
Body size
Population density*
Forest specificity*
4 Venezuela F Body mass Occupancy
Population density*
5 Mexico M, F Food relocation strategy Occupancy,
abundance**
Diel activity
6 Brazil M Body size Abundance
7 Colombia M Food relocation Abundance
Diel activity
8 Colombia M Functional group Abundance
(Body mass / Food
relocation, Activity period)
9 Mexico M Body size Abundance
Diet breadth
10 Indonesia M Body size Occupancy,
abundance
11 Borneo M Functional group (Body mass / Food
relocation, Activity period)
Abundance

Literature Cited

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Chapman, C. A., et al. 2003. Fragmentation and alteration of seed dispersal processes: An initial evaluation of dung beetles, seed fate, and seedling diversity. Biotropica 35:382–393.

Escobar, F., and P. Chacón de Ulloa. 2000. Distribución espacial y temporal en un gradiente de sucesión de la fauna de coleópteros coprófagos (Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae) en un bosque tropical montano, Nariño - Colombia. Rev. Biol. Trop. 48:961–975.

Escobar, S. F. 2004. Diversity and composition of dung beetle (Scarabaeinae) assemblages in a heterogeneous Andean landscape. Trop. Zool. 17:123–136.

Estrada, A., and R. Coates-Estrada. 2002. Dung beetles in continous forest, forest fragments and in an agricultural mosiac habitat island at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Biodiv. and Cons. 11:1903-1918.

Klein, B. C. 1989. Effects of forest fragmentation on dung and carrion beetle communities in Central Amazonia. Ecology 70:171–1725.

Larsen, T., et al. 2005. Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. Ecol. Lett. 8:538–547.

Larsen T. H., et al. 2008. Understanding trait-dependent community disassembly:dung beetles, density functions and forest fragmentation. Cons. Biol. 22:1288–1298.

Pineda, E., et al. 2005. Frog, bat, and dung beetle diversity in the cloud forest and coffee agroecosystems of Veracruz, Mexico. Cons. Biol. 19:400–410.

Shahabuddin, et al. 2005. Changes of dung beetle communities from rainforests towards agroforestry systems and annual cultures in Sulawesi (Indonesia). Biodiv. and Cons. 14:863–877.

Slade, E. M., et al. 2011. Biodiversity and ecosystem function of tropical forest dung beetles under contrasting logging regimes. Biol. Cons. 144:166–174.


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