“…The study topics were separated, as follows: “Altitudinal” referring to studies that evaluated beetle diversity and functional responses to altitude gradients; “Forest conversion” referring to studies that assessed primary forest degradation (i.e., studies that evaluate primary forest conversion in degraded primary forest) or primary forest loss and subsequent implementation of other habitat types (i.e., studies that evaluate secondary forest, coffee and forestry plantations, or pasture; e.g., López‐Bedoya et al, 2022) and their impacts on species diversity or ecological functions; “Human urbanization” refers to studies that evaluated the influence of human settlements or human activities on species diversity or ecological functions; “Inventories” refers to research that presents taxonomic lists of species, comparisons between sampling methods, or that evaluated the ecological functions performed by beetle families within the same habitat types (e.g., seed dispersal evaluation in secondary forest); “Landscape scale” refers to studies that evaluated how surrounding landscape characteristics such as land uses diversity, connectivity or edge effects impact beetle diversity or their ecological functions; and “Seasonal” refers to studies that evaluated how dry or rainy periods affect beetle diversity or functions. A single paper could incorporate more than one subject category, usually evaluating altitude gradients and forest conversion (see Escobar et al, 2007; Larsen, 2012), different habitat types in the same study (see Méndez‐Rojas, Cultid‐Medina, & Escobar, 2021; Noriega et al, 2021), or different metrics in the same study (see Arias‐Álvarez et al, 2022; Giraldo et al, 2011). The number of publications by taxonomic group and study topic were described using Hierarchical Voronoi Treemaps in Carrot Search Foam Tree Version 3.5 (2021).…”