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Human Disturbance Affects Dung Beetle Assemblages in French Guiana Forests

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French Guiana forests are threatened by increasing human activity such as infrastructure development, facilitating access to the forest and, therefore, logging, mining, farming and hunting. To highlight the impact of human pressure on the forest fauna, dung beetle assemblage was analyzed near Saint-Georges-de-l’Oyapock and compared with other sites in French Guiana, considering the distance to the main city and forest cover loss as proxies of human activities. Hill numbers and beta diversity were calculated. Non-metric multidimensional scaling and redundancy analyses were carried out to disentangle the effect of the distance to the nearest city and forest cover loss as proxies of human pressure, but also temperature and rainfall as proxies of climatic variations on dung beetle assemblage. Species richness increased significantly with the distance to the nearest city and decreasing forest cover loss. Assemblage structure varied among sites mainly with distance to the nearest city but also with rainfall. It varied also with forest cover loss, but not significantly. This study showed that human disturbances and climatic conditions, even if represented by proxies, affected dung beetle assemblage structures in French Guiana forests.

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hal-03893460 , version 1 (11-12-2022)

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Eric Guilbert, Oscar Affholder, Olivier Montreuil, Opale Coutant, Pierre-Michel Forget. Human Disturbance Affects Dung Beetle Assemblages in French Guiana Forests. Diversity, 2022, 14 (12), pp.1059. ⟨10.3390/d14121059⟩. ⟨hal-03893460⟩

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