This book describes the evolutionary and ecological consequences of reproductive
competition for scarabaeine dung beetles. As well as giving us insight into the private lives …

Madagascar has a rich fauna of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae) with almost
300 species described to date. Like most other taxa in Madagascar, dung beetles exhibit an …

Madagascar has lost about half of its forest cover since 1953 with much regional variation,
for instance most of the coastal lowland forests have been cleared. We sampled the …

Adaptive radiations of mammals have contributed to the exceptionally high levels of
biodiversity and endemism in Madagascar. Here we examine the evolutionary history of the …

Madagascar has an exceptionally large fauna of more than 250 species of endemic dung
beetles. Based on molecular phylogenies, the species descend from eight independent …

The endemic dung beetle subtribe Helictopleurina has 65 species mostly in wet forests in
eastern Madagascar. There are no extant native ungulates in Madagascar, but three …

Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island and has a wide range of climates and
ecosystems. Environmental diversity combined with long history of isolation (160 Myr) has …

The subfamily Orphninae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is reviewed from Madagascar. A total
of four genera and 39 species were found, all being endemic to the island. The following five …

The wet tropical forests in Madagascar have endemic dung beetles that have radiated for
tens of millions of years using a limited range of resources produced by the species-poor …

In this study, we test and corroborate the phylogenetic position of Heterosyphus within
Helictopleurus using mitogenomes and nuclear loci. Our recent samplings revealed that …