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...
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
#bats #urbanecology
Link: doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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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!
Great to see these results finally published! Data Blanca (@bioivanezb.bsky.social) and I collected during my master’s research in Peruvian cacao agroforestry systems, where you can learn more about the favorite food of leafcutter ants and how herbivory damage strongly depends on distance! 🐜
We also characterized carrion visitation patterns ⏱️ by other arthropod groups and found that, by burying the carcasses and changing their abiotic conditions, C. lancifer may be influencing the development of eggs deposited by necrophagous flies 🪰 in the first hours since deployment
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 👇
📢 A beetle outcompeting jaguars and vultures for carrion?
In this #carrionecology study we recently published in Scientific Reports, we show that Coprphanaeus lancifer 🪲 buried >90% of the 🐹 carcasses deployed in terra firme Amazonian forests during the wet season!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 A beetle outcompeting jaguars and vultures for carrion?
In this #carrionecology study we recently published in Scientific Reports, we show that Coprphanaeus lancifer 🪲 buried >90% of the 🐹 carcasses deployed in terra firme Amazonian forests during the wet season!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 📃
Led by Blanca Iváñez-Ballesteros @bioivanezb.bsky.social who studied cacao agroforestry systems in Peru during her PhD 🌱
William Carvalho
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Melvin Opolka
Pablo Aycart Lazo
Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III)
Ant trouble in cacao forests? 🐜 Researchers from @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social found a way to protect crops in Peru. Turns out, leaf-cutter ants prefer papaya over cacao! 🥭 Smart intercropping saves the harvest #Agroforestry #Sustainability 📷 Melvin Opolka ➡️ go.uniwue.de/leaf-cutter-...
Ant trouble in cacao forests? 🐜 Researchers from @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social found a way to protect crops in Peru. Turns out, leaf-cutter ants prefer papaya over cacao! 🥭 Smart intercropping saves the harvest #Agroforestry #Sustainability 📷 Melvin Opolka ➡️ go.uniwue.de/leaf-cutter-...
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Small vertebrate carcasses represent an abundant resource in tropical rainforests, where scavengers play a key role in nutrient recycling, enhancing productivity in nutrient-poor habitats such as Amaz...
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...
