Global dung webs: high trophic generalism of dung beetles along the latitudinal diversity gradient

• Main Authors: Kelvin Frank, Frank, Thorsten Krell, Eleanor M. Slade, Elizabeth H. Raine, Li, Yuen Chiew, Thomas Schmitt, Charles S. Vairappan, Philippe Walter, Nico Bluthgen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: QH Natural history; SF Animal culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24145/1/Global%20dung%20webs%20high%20trophic%20generalism%20of%20dung%20beetles%20along%20the%20latitudinal%20diversity%20gradient.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/24145/; https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13095

At the global scale, species diversity is known to strongly increase towards the equator for most taxa. According to theory, a higher resource specificity of consumers facilitates the coexistence of a larger number of species and has been suggested as an explanation for the latitudinal diversity gra...