Together, our findings underscore the role of Coprphanaeus lancifer as a keystone species capable of reshaping carrion food webs across habitats and seasons.
Take a look at the paper if you want to find out more about this AMAZING beetle and necrophagous community!
Using time-lapse cameras, we saw that Coprphanaeus lancifer, a ~4cm-long scarab beetle, buried almost every 🐹 deployed in terra firme during the wet season!!
Jaguars, ocelots and other vertebrates took most carcasses in floodplains and in both habitats during the dry season 👇
Our new article in Urban Ecosys: I need my green space: minimum area of urban green spaces to maintain 🦇diversity and activity in a large European metropolis
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Consequently, carcasses disappeared earlier in terra firme in the wet season than in floodplains and the dry season 👇
We deployed a total of 52 guinea pig carcasses in a lowland rainforest in southern Peru. At first, we just wanted to characterize the necrophagous arthropod community and its compositional changes across habitats and seasons, but we found something much more interesting...
Urbanisation and the associated low availability of green spaces in the cities affect the activity and diversity of insectivorous bat species worldwide. However, increasing the extent of green cover w...