ABSTRACT. In a tropical forest patch of Southeastern Brazil, adult Scarabaeidae beetles were used to test the hypothesis that fungivorous guilds have a higher proportion of generalist species than either frugivorous, necrophagous or coprophagous ones. No significant differences were found between guilds in relation to either the proportion of generalists or niche breadths of the component species. Only two fungivorous specialist species were sampled. These results indicate that sporocarps eaten by Scarabaeidae are not as rare as literature suggests. Fungi may help maintain high species diversity of Scarabaeidae in tropical forests. [Keywords: mycophagy, fungivory, dung beetles, food resource, rainforest] RESUMEN. ¿Son los escarabeidos fungí...
El desconocimiento que se tiene de los escarabajos coprófagos en selvas pluviales mundables, planteó...
Gut bacteria help dung beetles metabolize nutrients contained and synthesize those unavailable in th...
different bait to the Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in forest fragments in extreme souther...
The knowledge on Atlantic Forest scarab beetle fauna is quite limited. This biome is strongly degrad...
Possible relations ,among perching, arboreal foraging and phoresy with arbórea! mammals are proposed...
Salomão, Renato P., Lira, André F. A., Iannuzzi, Luciana (2014): Dominant Dung Beetle (Coleoptera: S...
Modificações ambientais que alterem o ciclo natural de decomposição vegetal por fungos saprófitos po...
The knowledge on Atlantic Forest scarab beetle fauna is quite limited. This biome is strongly degrad...
Se estudió la composición y distribución espacio-temporal de las especies de es...
Scarabaeinae specimens were collected with the use of pitfall traps baited with human excrement, rot...
The family Scarabaeidae is widely distributed, with around 7000 species in the world (Schoolmeesters...
Insect–fungal interactions are an important but understudied aspect of tropical forest ecology. Here...
Dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) are mainly coprophagous. Globally, many species co-exist with large mamm...
Variações em comunidades ao longo de ecótonos fornecem exemplos claros de como os organismos percebe...
Neotropical forests are extremely diverse ecosystems, listed within the biological hotspots of our p...
El desconocimiento que se tiene de los escarabajos coprófagos en selvas pluviales mundables, planteó...
Gut bacteria help dung beetles metabolize nutrients contained and synthesize those unavailable in th...
different bait to the Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in forest fragments in extreme souther...
The knowledge on Atlantic Forest scarab beetle fauna is quite limited. This biome is strongly degrad...
Possible relations ,among perching, arboreal foraging and phoresy with arbórea! mammals are proposed...
Salomão, Renato P., Lira, André F. A., Iannuzzi, Luciana (2014): Dominant Dung Beetle (Coleoptera: S...
Modificações ambientais que alterem o ciclo natural de decomposição vegetal por fungos saprófitos po...
The knowledge on Atlantic Forest scarab beetle fauna is quite limited. This biome is strongly degrad...
Se estudió la composición y distribución espacio-temporal de las especies de es...
Scarabaeinae specimens were collected with the use of pitfall traps baited with human excrement, rot...
The family Scarabaeidae is widely distributed, with around 7000 species in the world (Schoolmeesters...
Insect–fungal interactions are an important but understudied aspect of tropical forest ecology. Here...
Dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) are mainly coprophagous. Globally, many species co-exist with large mamm...
Variações em comunidades ao longo de ecótonos fornecem exemplos claros de como os organismos percebe...
Neotropical forests are extremely diverse ecosystems, listed within the biological hotspots of our p...
El desconocimiento que se tiene de los escarabajos coprófagos en selvas pluviales mundables, planteó...
Gut bacteria help dung beetles metabolize nutrients contained and synthesize those unavailable in th...
different bait to the Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in forest fragments in extreme souther...