Urbanisation Does Not Affect Allometric Relationships in a Widespread Amazonian Dung Beetle Species

Austral Ecology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 50(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

ABSTRACT The environmental pressures promoted by urban ecosystems can play a pivotal role in the sexual attributes of native species that persist cities. Dung beetles' body size and cephalic appendages are determinant for mating success couple acceptance, directly affecting individual fitness. objective this study was to test how different levels urbanisation affect tubercle length–body allometry Dichotomius boreus individuals. beetles were sampled three habitats: city core, outskirts rural sites. Individuals had their lengths measured assess allometric relationships. There hyperallometric relationship between length, which did not differ sexes according habitat type. Moreover, there no differences slopes habitats neither sex. results our could suggest selective force expression males females is similar responded similarly studied landscape study. Future studies encompassing dung would be necessary establish evolution relationships clade its relation intra‐ interspecific interactions.

Language: Английский

Landscape shifts challenge the maintenance of Melolonthidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) communities in the Amazon deforestation arc

Journal of Insect Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 29(3)

Published: April 17, 2025

Language: Английский