“…Previous studies with dung beetles showed that natural environment replacement reduces both taxonomic and functional dung beetle diversity (Audino et al, 2014;Barragán et al, 2011;Bogoni et al, 2016;Giménez G omez, Verdú, Guerra Alonso, & Zurita, 2018;G omez-Cifuentes et al, 2017;Guerra et al, 2019;Hernández et al, 2014). In addition to the reduction in dung beetle diversity, previous studies also observed a reduction in ecosystem functions performed by dung beetles (G omez-Cifuentes et al, 2020;Noriega et al, 2021;Tonelli et al, 2019), for example, less burial of organic matter in highly disturbed environments (G omez-Cifuentes et al, 2020). Therefore, environmental disturbance affects both dung beetle diversity and the ecosystem functions they perform.…”