We review the mechanisms behind ecosystem functions, the processes that facilitate energy
transfer along food webs, and the major processes that allow the cycling of carbon, oxygen …

Soils are integral to agricultural productivity, biodiversity, and the maintenance of ecosystem
services. However, soil ecosystem research depends on foundational biological knowledge …

Invertebrate focal taxa that can act as information surrogates for broader patterns of
biodiversity are of increasing interest to conservation practitioners. Scarabaeine dung …

Desertification is known to be a major threat to biodiversity, yet our understanding of the
consequent decline in biodiversity remains insufficient. Here, we predicted climate change …

Invertebrates constitute a substantial proportion of terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity and
are critical to ecosystem function. However, their inclusion in biodiversity monitoring and …

This study assesses long-term rainfall records in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South
Africa's most valuable source of surface runoff. Records from 11 stations covering the …

As integral members of pasture ecosystems in warmer climates, scarabaeine dung beetles
are useful indicators both of high biodiversity in untransformed pastoral regions and of …

Many biologists claim that beetles are the most diverse of all animal groups, with the number
of described forms commonly cited as around 350,000. Whether or not they will prove …

In dung beetles, spatial and temporal segregation is determined by the niche and
evolutionary history of the species and is mediated by competition. Different functional guilds …

An important resource partitioning strategy allowing dung beetles to coexist in the same
habitat, while utilising the same food, is species' separation of activity times. After …