Fieldwork in 🌋 Pico Island is done. Very few specimens collected 🫤 these are not good news, and might reflect decades of abuse of ivermectins, a 💉 medicine given to 🐄 cattle that affects 💩🪲dung beetles Next stop: Faial Island

And we are done with Faial Island! Finally we found dung beetles in many traps, and saw activity in the dung. We are off to Terceira, the las island of the field trip. Many thanks to this amazing team Biotura Guida Santos Almudena Dueñas & Laurine Parmentier

Fieldwork in the Azores finally comes to an end. Terceira Islands granted us many specimens, and a few Aphodiinae, which we haven't seen in the other islands. Now is time to pack everything back to Madrid, and analyse the samples collected. More news a few months from now!

Erica McAlister Dr Erica McAlister and Charlie Burrell enthusing over a fresh cow pat at Knepp whilst considering the role of flies and dung beetles in recycling nutrients and removing dung. More conservation videos at youtube.com/@bill_sutherla… youtube.com/watch?v=hsHD-X…

DUNGPOOL team that took part of the Azorean expedition. Biotura Guida Santos Almudena Dueñas, Pauli Borges, Laurine Parmentier & Abrão Leite Amazing people that made this expedition posible and successfull!

El proyecto DUNGPOOOL marca su presencia en la Noche de la Investigación de CaixaForum En nuestra actividad "Los habitantes del Inframundo", os damos a conocer con un juego divertido, el maravilloso mundo de los artrópodos 🪲🕷️🐜🦗🦟🪳🪰🐝🐞🦋🐛. ¡Acercaros el dia 27!

We are almost ready to start a new round of lab experiments, in which we will evaluate the effects of temperature and species order of arrival, on 💩🪲different ecosystem services! More news soon!

Autumn experiments done! 1600 individuals of 3 species were used for evaluating the effect of temperature and species interactions on different ecosystem functions. 10 interaction treatments x 2🌡️treatments. A great effort from the team! Biotura Guida Santos & Almudena Dueñas

Happy Holidays and all the best for 2025. Let the good times roll, and get your ugly Christmas sweaters out!

DUNGPOOL fieldwork is over! We had three amazing fieldwork seasons, with a lof of hard work, adventures and fun. Now is time to finish processing the samples, analyse data, and hopefully find interesting results. Stay tunned

Almudena Dueñas will give a talk today SIBECOL Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET) meeting, focused on DUNGPOOL's first results of the temperature controlled experiments we performed (also part of her PhD research). Session GSE, 12.00, room: Auditorio

Eva Cuesta Biotura will be presenting today SIBECOL Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET) meeting, DUNGPOOL's first results of the field experiments conducted in Madrid region with open top chambers. Session GSE, 13.15, room: Auditorio

DUNGPOOL team presented the project's first results at the SIBECOL Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET) conference, in Pontevedra (Spain).

📢 The first paper of our project as just been published. Here we present the list and geographical records of the dung beetles 🪲💩 we collect in the Azores, in June/July 2024. The diversity is low, and includes alien species. bdj.pensoft.net/article/163289/

Beer + Science, a perfect combination! We will be giving a talk about dunng beetles and global change?! Ven a Cercedilla a tomar una cerveza mientras aprendes sobre cambio global y escarabajos coprófagos DUNGPOOL Project

Looking forward to be at the #BES2025 Excited to learn new stuff, and to meet friends and colleagues Journal of Animal Ecology I will be presenting a poster from DUNGPOOL Project, about the effects of temperature and species interactions on dung 💩 removal