This paper focuses on biological relationships between mammalian species richness and the community structure of dung beetles in cool-temperate forests in the northernmost part of mainland Japan. The composition of beetle assemblages was evaluated at 3 sites in undisturbed beech forests with different mammalian fauna. In spring and summer 2009, beetles were collected at each site using pitfall ...

Impaction in dairy animals refers to the failure of digestion, slow passage and accumulation of feed in one or more of the stomach compartments leading to constipation or absence of dung. In last few years this condition has emerged as one of the most common digestive disorder in dairy animals of Punjab. It is more common in pregnant or young cattle of less than 8 yr of age. Impaction is of two...

Lowland rice is the main commodity crop for Dos Tahi farmer group in Nagori Bandar Rakyat, District, Simalungun Regency. However, scarcity of fertilizers an inhibiting factor process cultivating plants. Many people have livestock and one them cattle. still find it difficult to cow dung. Cow dung waste can be processed into liquid organic fertilizer from both solid waste. The training on making ...

Abstract Dung beetles have been introduced to non-native sites perform dung removal function in cattle pastures. Despite some species becoming invasive, their behavioural and reproductive strategies remain be elucidated detail. Here we evaluated the shift behaviour reproduction of two beetles, Euoniticellus intermedius Digitonthophagus gazella , when they interact with same or other out native ...

Incubation experiment was conducted on four soil types in Nigeria using cattle dung (CD) at the rate of 2.5g/kg soil ( 5 t ha), Urea fertilizer at the rate of 0.1g/kg soil ( 200 kg ha ) and cattle dung (2.5g/kg soil) combined with Urea 0.05g/kg soil (100 kg ha) as treatments. The objective of the experiment was to compare the rate of OC, NH4 – N, NO3 – N and available P release on soils selecte...

(+)-Isoepoxydon has been established as the major causative agent of interference competition between Poronia punctata (NRRL 6457), a late fungal colonist of cattle dung, and two early-occurring dung colonists, Ascobolus furfuraceus (NRRL 6460) and Sordaria fimicola (NRRL 6459). This compound was isolated from ethyl acetate extracts of liquid cultures of P. punctata by silica gel chromatography...

Abstract This study aims to determine whether the application of cattle manure and associated bioturbation by dung beetles other invertebrates can increase oak seedling establishment in high biodiversity Mediterranean silvopastoral systems known as “dehesas”, which are comprised scattered oaks a grassland layer used for livestock rearing. A two-year was conducted representative dehesa southern ...

Cryptosporidium oocysts were inoculated into fresh dung (∼1.2×10(4) oocysts per gram wet weight) and fed to dung beetles to assess the effect of dung burial by the dung beetle Bubas bison on the distribution of the oocysts in small cores of soil in the laboratory. The experiment consisted of five replicates of each of two treatments; controls (dung but no dung beetles) and the experimental trea...