Local-scale temperature gradients driven by human disturbance shape the physiological and morphological traits of dung beetle communities in a Bornean oil palm–forest mosaic

J. Williamson, E. Teh, T. Jucker, M. Brindle, E. Bush, A.Y.C. Chung, J. Parrett, O.T. Lewis, S.J. Rossiter, E.M. Slade

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1655-1667
Number of pages13
JournalFunctional Ecology
Volume36
Issue number7
Early online date26 Apr 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the Human Modified Tropical Forests programme (NE/K016261/1; NE/K016377/1) and the Newton‐Ungku Omar Fund via the British Council and Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology (216433953). NERC funded the PhD studentship for JW (NE/L002485/1) and research fellowship of TJ (NE/S01537X/1). EMS acknowledges funding from a BES Small Ecological Project Grant, No.: 3256/4035, and the Varley‐Gradwell Travelling Fellowship in Insect Ecology. David Coomes was instrumental in the generation of the airborne LiDAR‐derived thermal projections. Thanks must go to Sol Milne and Herry Heroin for their help in the field, Darren Mann for assistance with dung beetle identification, Paul Eggleton for his support and advice, and Rob Knell and Kimberly Sheldon for feedback on an earlier version of the manuscript. We doubly thank Rob Knell for his statistical guidance. Thanks to Sui Peng Heon for translating the abstract. We are grateful to the SEARRP staff who made this work possible: Unding Jami, Johnny Larenus, Amir, Anis, David, Didy, Dino, Joanni, Kiki, Loly, Mudin, Noy and Zul and Ong Xin Rui for providing dung beetle images.

Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the Human Modified Tropical Forests programme (NE/K016261/1; NE/K016377/1) and the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund via the British Council and Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology (216433953). NERC funded the PhD studentship for JW (NE/L002485/1) and research fellowship of TJ (NE/S01537X/1). EMS acknowledges funding from a BES Small Ecological Project Grant, No.: 3256/4035, and the Varley-Gradwell Travelling Fellowship in Insect Ecology. David Coomes was instrumental in the generation of the airborne LiDAR-derived thermal projections. Thanks must go to Sol Milne and Herry Heroin for their help in the field, Darren Mann for assistance with dung beetle identification, Paul Eggleton for his support and advice, and Rob Knell and Kimberly Sheldon for feedback on an earlier version of the manuscript. We doubly thank Rob Knell for his statistical guidance. Thanks to Sui Peng Heon for translating the abstract. We are grateful to the SEARRP staff who made this work possible: Unding Jami, Johnny Larenus, Amir, Anis, David, Didy, Dino, Joanni, Kiki, Loly, Mudin, Noy and Zul and Ong Xin Rui for providing dung beetle images.

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