Conversion of Cerrado savannas into exotic pastures: The relative importance of vegetation and food resources for dung beetle assemblages

Replacing native savannas with exotic pastures not only alters vegetation structure, but it also increases herbivorous cattle dung quantity consequently changing the food resource available for dung beetles. Therefore, this study aims at investigating the relative importance of vegetation structure regarding food resource types to determine dung beetle assemblage in Cerrado savannas and exotic pastures. We carried out a sampling of dung beetles...