Spatial and temporal trends in dung beetle research.

ABSTRACT: Dung beetles are one of the most charismatic animal taxa. Their familiarity as ecosystem service providers is clear, but they also play a range of roles in a variety of different ecosystems worldwide. Here, we give an overview of the current state of dung beetle research and the changes in the prevalence of topics in a collated corpus of 4,145 peer-reviewed articles of dung beetle research, spanning from 1930 until 2024. We used a range of text-analysis tools, including topic modelling, to assess how the peer-reviewed literature on dung beetles has changed over this period. Most of the literature is split into three distinct, but related discourses-the agri/biological topics, the ecological topics, and the taxonomic topics. Publications on the 'effect of veterinary chemicals' and 'n

SUBMITTER: Hemmings Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11849510 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature