How the humble dung beetle engineers better ecosystems in Australia
- Written by Paul Weston, Senior Research Fellow / EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation, Charles Sturt University
Dung beetles play an important role helping clear up all the dung left by other animals in an environment.
In Australia there are approximately 475 native species of dung beetle.
But there’s a problem. Most of them are adapted to deal with marsupial dung. When British colonisers brought livestock down under, they introduced an entirely new...