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Provedor de dados: | Ecología Austral
País: | Argentina
Título: | Are fungivorous Scarabaeidae less specialist?
Autores: | Falqueto,Silvia A; Vaz-De-Mello,Fernando Z; Schoereder,José H.
Data: | 2005-06-01
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | Mycophagy; Fungivory; Dung beetles; Food resource; Rainforest.
Resumo: | In a tropical forest patch of Southeastern Brazil, adult Scarabaeidae beetles were used to test the hypothesis that fungivorous guilds have a higher proportion of generalist species than either frugivorous, necrophagous or coprophagous ones. No significant differences were found between guilds in relation to either the proportion of generalists or niche breadths of the component species. Only two fungivorous specialist species were sampled. These results indicate that sporocarps eaten by Scarabaeidae are not as rare as literature suggests. Fungi may help maintain high species diversity of Scarabaeidae in tropical forests.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1667-782X2005000100003
Editor: | Asociación Argentina de Ecología
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ecología austral  v.15 n.1 2005
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess