02521naa a2200277 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400430006010000190010324501560012226000090027852016900028765000190197765000220199670000200201870000240203870000160206270000180207870000200209670000150211670000160213170000140214770000200216170000150218177300470219621592562023-12-06       2020    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 ahttps://doi.org/10.1111/btp.127562DOI1 aFRANÇA, F. M.  aEl Niño impacts on human-modified tropical forestsbConsequences for dung beetle diversity and associated ecological processes.h[electronic resource]  c2020  aOur knowledge of how tropical forest biodiversity and functioning respond to an-thropogenic and climate-associated stressors is limited. Research exploring El Niño impacts are scarce or based on single post-disturbance assessments, and few studies assess forests previously affected by anthropogenic disturbance. Focusing on dung beetles and associated ecological functions, we assessed (a) the ecological effects of a strong El Niño, (b) if post-El Niño beetle responses were influenced by previous for-est disturbance, and (c) how these responses compare between forests impacted only by drought and those affected by both drought and fires. We sampled 30 Amazonian forest plots distributed across a gradient of human disturbance in 2010, 2016, and 2017-approximately 5 years before, and 3-6 and 15-18 months after the 2015-16 El Niño. We found 14,451 beetles from 98 species and quantified the beetle-medi-ated dispersal of &gt8,600 seed mimics and the removal of c. 30 kg of dung. All dung beetle responses (species richness, abundance, biomass, compositional similarity to pre-El Niño condition, and rates of dung removal and seed dispersal) declined after the 2015-16 El Niño, but the greatest immediate losses (i.e., in 2016) were observed within fire-affected forests. Previous forest disturbance also influenced post-El Niño dung beetle species richness, abundance, and species composition. We demonstrate that dung beetles and their ecological functions are negatively affected by climate-associated disturbances in human-modified Amazonian forests and suggest that the interaction between local anthropogenic and climate-related stressors merits further investigation  aBiodiversidade  aFloresta Tropical1 aFERREIRA, J. N.1 aVAZ-DE-MELLO, F. Z.1 aMAIA, L. F.1 aBERENGUER, E.1 aPALMEIRA, A. F.1 aFADINI, R.1 aLOUZADA, J.1 aBRAGA, R.1 aOLIVEIRA, V. H.1 aBARLOW, J.  tBiotropicagv. 52, n. 2, p. 252-262, 2020.