Sentences with phrase «dung beetle species»
[T] he standing value of timber dropped from $ 10,460 per hectare to $ 2,010 per hectare after two logging rotations, yet these forests retained over 75 percent of bird and dung beetle species found in primary unlogged forest.
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«When you combine the current increase in meat consumption around the world with the steep declines in many dung beetle species, overall emissions from cattle farming can only increase.»
«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.
«The dung beetle species richness and biomass, and the soil removal rates were negatively affected by increasing the logging intensity.»
While carrying out a biodiversity study, a Mexican - Italian research team discovered three new dung beetle species in montane forests disturbed by livestock grazing.
«So I was really surprised when I discovered three dung beetle species.»
Not exact matches
While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.
For context, the activity of almost 5,000 dung beetles from 53 species was recorded within the largest logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 544,000 hectares of native forest — an area 3.5 times that of London.
The toxicity of new livestock medications therefore needs to be verified in ecotoxicological tests with individual animal species such as the common yellow dung fly, the barn fly or a dung beetle.
So they trapped airborne dung beetles in a Swaziland savanna by hanging up a transparent sheet and selected one individual from each of 10 species to dissect.
«Efforts to enhance connectivity are important for wide - ranging species, however,» added Hurd, «so the bird and dung beetle are important indicators but not «keystone» species.»