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Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions

  • Finote Gijsman1
  • Ciara M. Nutter1
  • Fathiya M. Khamis2,3
  • Fidelis L. O. Ombura3
  • Matthew C. Hutchinson4
  • Todd M. Palmer5
  • Jacob R. Goheen6
  • Scott E. Miller7
  • Robert M. Pringle8,1
8 affiliations
  1. 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
  2. 2Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
  3. 3International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya
  4. 4Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
  5. 5Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  6. 6Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management and Department of Global Resource Systems, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
  7. 7National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
  8. 8Collegium Helveticum, the joint Institute of Advanced Study of ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, and Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
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@article{gijsman2026importance,
  title = {{Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions}},
  author = {Finote Gijsman and Ciara M. Nutter and Fathiya M. Khamis and Fidelis L. O. Ombura and Matthew C. Hutchinson and Todd M. Palmer and Jacob R. Goheen and Scott E. Miller and Robert M. Pringle},
  journal = {Science},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  doi = {10.1126/science.aeb7062},
  url = {http://hdl.handle.net/2263/112161},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions
AU  - Finote Gijsman
AU  - Ciara M. Nutter
AU  - Fathiya M. Khamis
AU  - Fidelis L. O. Ombura
AU  - Matthew C. Hutchinson
AU  - Todd M. Palmer
AU  - Jacob R. Goheen
AU  - Scott E. Miller
AU  - Robert M. Pringle
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/05/28
JO  - Science
DO  - 10.1126/science.aeb7062
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/2263/112161
SN  - 0036-8075
SN  - 0193-4511
SN  - 1095-9203
ER  -