Does the US Today really think this is going to move the needle?
Dung beetles have a tough life. Climate change is making it worse
A recent study in Peru’s Amazon found that rising temperatures from climate change are pushing dung beetles beyond their thermal limits, reducing species diversity at both low and high elevations and threatening their ecological roles.
Not exactly the poster child for cute animals, dung beetles now join the list of species affected by human-caused climate change.
Indeed, the long tentacles of climate change now extend all the way into the dreary lives of dung beetles in the Amazon rainforest, a new study suggests.
“With ongoing climate change, rising temperatures may push dung beetles beyond their physiological limits,” said study lead author Kim Lea Holzmann of the University of Wurzburg in Germany, in an e-mail to USA TODAY.
“May.”
Besides their important role in ecosystems, dung beetles are an excellent model group for ecological research because their biology and ecology are relatively well understood, Holzmann said. “This makes them a valuable study system. They can be sampled using standardized trapping methods worldwide, since they are easily attracted to dung and carrion, which allows for comparable data across different regions.”
In addition, dung beetles are highly sensitive to environmental disturbances such as habitat loss, land-use change, and climate shifts. Because of this sensitivity, they serve as strong bioindicators, meaning changes in their communities can reflect broader ecosystem changes.
Well, they seem to have survived numerous Holocene warm and cool periods, so, enough with the scaremongering.
Although having a name that adolescents find humourous dung beetles are considered to be a keystone species in ecosystems. The current temps are hotter then st any previous time during the Holocene and our current rate of increase is 10 times or more than has been observed by proxy data
Rain Forrest soils hold few nutrients they get washed away by heavy rain. Dung beetles bury dung under gtoundc and fertilize it
Maybe not so, Johnny- Bhatta 2025 found a higher rate of warming 1899-1940 than 1983-2024. Ivanovic 2016 found the Northern Hemisphere warmed 4-5C within a few decades approx 14500 years ago
The only Ivanovic 2016 we found was Ivanovic et al (2016) Transient climate simulations of the deglaciation 21–9 thousand years before present (version 1) – PMIP4 Core experiment design and boundary conditions, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 2563–2587.
Can you explain what they found?
Or was it… Ivanovic et al (2017) Collapse of the North American ice saddle 14,500 years ago caused widespread cooling and reduced ocean overturning circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(1), 383-392.
Bhatta (2025) was posted on SSRN, formerly known as Social Science Research Network, is an open access research platform used to share early-stage research without peer-review. Bibek Bhatta is not a climate scientist.
From whom do you obtain your citations?
Like Republicuns, dung beetles will have to adapt to global warming.
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affected by human-caused climate change.
Stoppit!! Wake up.
Whose SUV melted the glaciers?
Medieval Warm Period.
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During the last ice age (not to be confused with today’s ICE age) there were no SUVs.
The ice age ended approximately 10,000–12,000 years ago primarily due to periodic changes in Earth’s orbit and tilt (Milankovitch cycles), which increased summer sunshine in the Northern Hemisphere, melting ice sheets.
The SUV boom started in the 1980s.
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Maybe if “researchers” paid for their own Amazon vacations there would be fewer of them publishing ridiculous “studies” like this.