How Does Landscape Structure Affect Dung Beetle Assemblages in Amazon Cities?

ABSTRACT: The growth of cities is one of the main direct and indirect factors responsible for the loss of native vegetation cover. Urbanization directly affects the biological communities inhabiting forest remnants inserted in cities, compromising the maintenance of urban and natural ecosystems. By understanding the effects of landscape transformation due to urbanization, we can have insights regarding the distribution of land uses that allow a proper maintenance of the urban ecosystems. This work assessed the effects of landscape structure variables (forest cover, agricultural area, edge density, and number of forest patches) on dung beetle assemblages and functional groups (i.e., diet and resource removal strategy) sampled in 38 sites located along an urban-rural gradient of six cities belonging t

SUBMITTER: Mesquita VP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11710940 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature