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Duration of Cattle Ranching Affects Dung Beetle Diversity and Secondary Seed Removal in Tropical Dry Forest Landscapes.

Juan J Morales-Trejo, Wesley Dáttilo, Gustavo Zurita, Lucrecia Arellano

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Article in Insects, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Juan J Morales-TrejoInstituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Red de Ecoetología, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa 91073, Ver., Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6181-4110
Wesley DáttiloInstituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Red de Ecoetología, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa 91073, Ver., Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-4758-4379
Gustavo ZuritaInstituto de Biología Subtropical (IBS), Universidad Nacional de Misiones (UNaM)-CONICET, Av. Tres Fronteras 183, Puerto Iguazú 3370, Misiones, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-1341-3491
Lucrecia ArellanoInstituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Red de Ecoetología, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa 91073, Ver., Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-6364-2447

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Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías 774777/609370Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías 83441
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cattle ranching is an economic activity responsible for the loss of large extensions of tropical dry forest around the world. Several studies have demonstrated that the use of inadequate practices of this activity in tropical forests (e.g., fire, agrochemicals, and lack of rotational grazing systems of cattle in pastures) have negative consequences on dung beetle diversity and their ecological functions. In the present study, the influence of the cattle ranching duration gradient on the diversity of dung beetles and seed removal was evaluated. This study was carried out in pastures with different times of establishment of cattle ranching (between 4 and 40 years) in a tropical dry forest of Mexico. Overall, the species richness of dung beetles was similar along the gradient of grazing ages. However, the diversity of common (q1) and dominant (q2) species decreased and was associated with an increasing abundance of exotic species and a decreasing abundance of native species. Seed removal was mainly carried out by four beetle species, among which the exotic species

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