Space‐for‐time substitution reveals a hump‐shaped distribution of dung beetles

Abstract

Studying mechanisms that impact and maintain species diversity in space and time is one of the most important questions in ecology and conservation (Castro et al., 2020;Chesson, 2000). To achieve this goal, it is important to evaluate multiple scales and metrics of biodiversity in response to ecological processes (Barton et al., 2013).Several studies have developed models and theories to assess the impacts that climate change can directly and indirectly cause on species diversity (Norberg et al., 2012). To assess these impacts, longterm assessments associating climate change with species diversity patterns are necessary. Nevertheless, due to the long time to have answers that are needed immediately, these analyses become unfeasible and impractical. In addition, since variation in temporal trends is typically based on comparison in more than one location, making it also a spatial pattern (Blüthgen et al., 2022), a suitable alternative