Climate change mediated by anthropogenic activity induces significant alterations on pest
abundance and behavior and a potential increase in the use of agrochemicals for crop …

Evolution of agriculture and the attendant increase in food production has increased the
world human population from 2 to 20 Million (M) about 8000 BCE to 8 Billion (B) in 2022 …

How to feed, house, clothe and power 11 billion of us without eliminating very many species
and wrecking Earth's climate is perhaps this century's greatest challenge. We must obviously …

Dung beetles are increasingly used as a study taxon—both as bioindicators of
environmental change, and as a model system for exploring ecosystem functioning. The …

Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient
cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally reduces species and …

Highlights•Addressing sustainability challenge through sustainable intensification of
agriculture.•Moving beyond the twin goals of increasing crop yield and conserving …

Biotic communities in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes can be shaped by both the
land use of local patches and the structure of surrounding landscapes. However, studies …

Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity,
yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress to date in …

We evaluated how the taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles responds to
landscape fragmentation in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (LTBR). We sampled dung …

The role of deterministic and stochastic mechanisms in community assembly is a key
question in ecology, but little is known about their relative contribution in dung beetle …