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PUBLICATIONS:
1 – França F., Ferreira J., Vaz-de-Mello F., Maia L., Louzada J., Oliveira V., Braga R., Palmeira A.F., Berenguer E., Fadini R., Barlow J. (2020). El Niño impacts on human-modified tropical forests: consequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes. Biotropica. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/btp.12756
2 – França F., Benkwitt C., Peralta G., Robinson J., Graham N., Tylianakis J., Berenguer E., Lees A., Ferreira J., Louzada J., Barlow, J. (2020). Climate extremes, climate change and local disturbances as interacting drivers of tropical ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2019.0116
3 – Barlow J., França F., Gardner T., Hicks C., Lennox G., Berenguer E., Castello L., Economo E.,
Ferreira J., Guénard B., Leal C., Isaac V., Lees A., Paar C., Wilson S., Young P., Graham N. (2018). The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0301-1
4 – França F., Louzada J., Barlow J. (2018). Selective logging effects on ‘brown world’ faecal-detritus
pathway in tropical forests: A case study from Amazonia using dung beetles. Forest Ecology and
Management. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112717312434?via%3Dihub
5 – Carvalho R., Frazão F., Ferreria R., Louzada J., Cordeiro L. França F. (2018). Dung burial by roller
dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae): An individual and specific-level study. International Journal
of Tropical Insect Science. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-tropical-insect-science/article/dung-burial-by-roller-dung-beetles-coleoptera-scarabaeinae-an-
individual-and-specificlevel-study/448E7798B74877E49D3654723F0B6A60
Selected outreach articles/ blog posts/ media outlets
1 – Mongabay (2020): https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/extreme-el-nino-drought-fires-
contribute-to-amazon-insect-collapse-study/
2 – The Conversation (2020): https://theconversation.com/dung-beetles-help-rainforests-regrow-
but-extreme-drought-and-wildfires-in-the-amazon-are-killing-them-off-130444
3 – O Globo (2020; Portuguese): https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/el-nino-desmatamento-
ameacam-besouros-da-amazonia-24241261
4 – G1 (2020; Portuguese): https://g1.globo.com/natureza/noticia/2020/02/13/pesquisa-aponta-
reducao-drastica-de-besouros-na-amazonia.ghtml
5 – O Tempo (2020; Portuguese): https://www.otempo.com.br/interessa/incendios-contribuiram-
para-o-colapso-de-besouros-1.2296216
6 – Europa Press (2020; Spanish): https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/habitat-y-clima/noticia-nino-
contribuye-colapso-insectos-amazonia-20200210120538.html
7 – GreenReport (2020; Italian): http://www.greenreport.it/news/aree-protette-e-biodiversita/el-
nino-e-la-scomparsa-degli-scarabei-stercorari-nellamazzonia-sempre-piu-modificata-dalluomo/
8 – Mongabay (2019): https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/all-you-need-is-human-feces-the-
strange-world-of-dung-beetle-sampling/
9 – E360-Yale: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/hotter-drier-el-ninos-linked-to-insect-decline-in-the-
amazon-study-finds
10 – Mongabay (2017): https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/selective-logging-reduces-
biodiversity-disrupts-amazon-ecosystems-study/
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