@article {KNZ0050,
	title = {The rhinoceros beetle, Xyloryctes jamaicensis Drury (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae):a locally abundant detritivore of a Kansas riparian forest},
	journal = {Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society},
	volume = {56},
	year = {1983},
	pages = {543 -546},
	abstract = {<p>Third stage larvae of the rhinoceros beetle, Xyloryctes jamaicensis Drury (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), were abundant during autumn 1981 in litter and upper soil horizons of a bur oak- hackberry forest near Manhattan, Kansas. Densities of larvae ranged from 0 to 3.7 individuals/m2 within forest transects, while amounts of fecal pellets of these larvae ranged from 28.2 to 463.1 g/m2 along these same transects. No third stage larvae were present the following autumn, suggesting that the population is dominated by a particular brood. Fecal pellets exhibited slow decay rates (10\%/yr), and the amount of pellets on the forest floor represents the relative abundance of several generations of larvae</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, beetle, prairie, tallgrass},
	doi = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/25084458},
	author = {Seastedt, T.R.}
}
