Differences between beetle communities colonizing cattle and horse dung

Mroczynski, R. P.; Komosiński, Karol

doi:10.14411/eje.2014.050

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“…Based on Table 1, it shows that even though accountability level is high, it does not affect the financial statements quality. This finding is in accordance with Setyoko's research which stated that most villages in Purbalingga Regency as recipients of the village fund program were unable to achieve financial administration accountability [19]. This condition is also in line with the research results found by Kloot and Martin which found differences in the level of accountability in rural and urban areas [20].…”

Section: The Effect Of Accountability Towards Financial Statement Quasupporting

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Determinants of Financial Statements Quality in Village Government

Yaya¹,

Wahyuli²

2019

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Accounting and Finance (ICAF 2019)

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This research aims at investigating determinants of financial statements quality in village government. They are accountability, transparency, human resource competence, regulation compliance and the use of information technology. The population of this research is all village government in Bantaeng Regency, South Sulawesi. The sample of this research involved 19 villages in Bantaeng Regency, with 68 respondents in total. Selected respondents are Head of Village, Village Secretaries, Village Treasurers, Village Supervisors and Financial Chiefs of Village Government. The data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed by using multiple linier regression analysis. The result shows that regulation compliance and the use of information technology have significant effect towards financial statement quality in village government. In contrast, accountability, transparency and human resource competence do not have significant effect toward the quality of village government financial statements.

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Section: The Effect Of Accountability Towards Financial Statement Quasupporting

confidence: 90%

Determinants of Financial Statements Quality in Village Government

Yaya¹,

Wahyuli²

2019

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Accounting and Finance (ICAF 2019)

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“…Megarthrus prosseni was also more frequent at urban sites, but in association with greater improved grassland cover. M. prosseni occurs in all kinds of decaying vegetation (Cuccodoro and Löbl 1997) and has been found frequently in horse dung in one UK county (Lane et al 2002), which was used as the bait for traps in this study, though in a study in Poland it showed no preference for horse dung over cow (Mroczyński and Komosiński 2014). These species could be more common in the vicinity of urban areas because there tends to be more suitable habitat available, but following a similar experimental design Magura et al (2013) found that the abundance and species richness of saprophagous Stapylinidae was higher in rural forests than urban ones.…”

Section: Staphylinidae On Dungmentioning

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“…Due to the high likelihood of trap disturbance in the urban sites, we assessed the dung-attracted beetle community using simple baited traps deployed for a short time period. Traps consisted of a 140 mm wide, 20 mm deep Petri dish filled to the brim with horse dung, which is attractive to a wide variety of species (Mroczyński and Komosiński 2014). Dung was collected early in the morning from an enclosed stable in order to reduce the potential for colonisation by beetles ahead of its use for sampling (Krell 2007).…”

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“…Of these, seven belonged to the saprophagous larval guild (of which some also feed on dung as adults); the rest all had predatory larvae and Heleophorus brevipalpus are also predators as adults. Five of the top 10 most abundant species, including the two most frequently recorded, belonged to the subfamily Oxytelinae (Staphylinidae), which are often among the most abundant rove beetles in dung (Caballero and León-Cortés 2012;Mroczyński and Komosiński 2014;Yamamoto et al 2014). Eight species of dung beetle were recorded, with four among the most widespread species.…”

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Effects of urbanisation and landscape heterogeneity mediated by feeding guild and body size in a community of coprophilous beetles

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Although the impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity are well studied, the precise response of some invertebrate groups remains poorly known. Dung-associated beetles are little studied in an urban context, especially in temperate regions. We considered how landscape heterogeneity, assessed at three spatial scales (250, 500 and 1000 m radius), mediates the community composition of coprophilous beetles on a broad urban gradient. Beetles were sampled using simple dung-baited traps, placed at 48 sites stratified across three distance bands around a large urban centre in England. The most urban sites hosted the lowest abundance of saprophagous beetles, with a lower mean body length relative to the least urban sites. Predicted overall species richness and the richness of saprophagous species were also lowest at the most urban sites. Ordination analyses followed by variation partitioning revealed that landscape heterogeneity across the urban gradient explained a small but significant proportion of community composition. Heterogeneity data for a 500-m radius around each site provided the best fit with beetle community data. Larger saprophagous species were associated with lower amounts of manmade surface and improved grassland. Some individual species, particularly predators, appeared to be positively associated with urban or urban fringe sites. This study is probably the first to examine the response of the whole coprophilous beetle community to urbanisation. Our results suggest that the response of this community to urbanisation matches expectations based on other taxonomic groups, whilst emphasising the complex nature of this response, with some smaller-bodied species potentially benefitting from urbanisation.

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“…Halffter & Edmonds, ; Klemperer, ; Dacke, ; Dacke et al , ); dung preferences (e.g. Dormont et al , ; Bogoni & Hernández, ; Mroczynski & Komosinski, ); and relationships between dung beetles and microorganisms (e.g. Byrne et al , ; Estes et al , ).…”

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Herbivore dung as food for dung beetles: elementary coprology for entomologists

Holter

2016

Ecological Entomology

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Abstract. 1. How do dung beetles and their larvae manage to subsist on herbivore dung consisting of plant remains that are at least partly indigestible, mixed with various metabolic waste products? To clarify what is known and not known about this basic aspect of dung beetle biology, the present review summarises information on dung composition and discusses the feeding of beetles (food: fresh dung) and larvae (food: older dung) in relation to this information.2. There is 70-85% water in typical fresh dung, and undigested lignocellulose or 'fibre' constitutes about 70% of the organic matter which also contains 1.5-3% N. About 75% of this is 'metabolic faecal nitrogen', mostly associated with dead and alive microbial biomass. As all essential amino acids and cholesterol are probably present, additional synthesis by microbial symbionts may not be needed by the beetles.3. Beetles minimise the intake of lignocellulose by filtering fibre particles out of their food which is probably microbial biomass/debris with much smaller particle size. Excess fluid may be squeezed out of this material by the mandibles before ingestion.4. All larvae are bulk feeders and unable to filtrate, but little is known about the composition of their food, i.e. older dung in pats or underground brood masses. Larvae in dung pats may depend on easily digestible dung components, probably microbial biomass, whereas the nutritional ecology of larvae in brood masses is still not understood. Unravelling the composition of their food might answer some of the so far unanswered questions.

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Differences between beetle communities colonizing cattle and horse dung

Cited by 12 publications

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Determinants of Financial Statements Quality in Village Government

Determinants of Financial Statements Quality in Village Government

Effects of urbanisation and landscape heterogeneity mediated by feeding guild and body size in a community of coprophilous beetles

Herbivore dung as food for dung beetles: elementary coprology for entomologists

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