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Dung beetles do not profit from enhanced spatial heterogeneity in production forests: a large-scale forest manipulation experiment
Johanna Asch, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Kerstin Pierick…·Marcell Karl Peters
This study examines the effects of forest structural heterogeneity on dung beetle diversity and ecosystem function in Central Europe, finding no benefit to dung beetle diversity or dung removal rates in more heterogeneous forests.