Dung beetles from two sustainable-use protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon
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- 1. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratório de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociências - UFMT, Cuiabá, Brazil|Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Manaus, Brazil
- 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade (PPGECB), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
- 3. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratório de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociências - UFMT, Cuiabá, Brazil|Laboratory of Integrative Entomology, Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
- 4. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia. Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT, Cuiabá, Brazil
- 5. Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratório de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociências - UFMT, Cuiabá, Brazil
- 6. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS8 1QU, UK, Bristol, United Kingdom
- 7. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS8 1QU, UK, Bristol, United Kingdom|Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia (PPGECO), Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, 66075-110, Brazil, Belém, Brazil
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The Amazon Forest is one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and yet its protected areas are understudied concerning insects and other invertebrates. These organisms are essential for tropical forests due to their ecological processes, with some species being very sensitive to habitat disturbances. Dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) have been used as bioindicators for more than 30 years and were surveyed to assess the insect biodiversity of two sustainable-use forest reserves in the Brazilian Amazon.
We report inventories of dung beetles from two Amazonian forest reserves in Pará State, Brazil: the Tapajós National Forest and the Carajás National Forest. Surveys were carried out with baited-pitfall traps installed in 2010, 2016, 2017 and 2019. We collected a total of 3,772 individuals from 19 genera and 96 species. We highlight the importance of Amazonian protected areas as refugia for insect biodiversity, particularly dung beetles, which contribute to many key ecosystem processes.
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