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Abstract
A 2-yr study (1971-73) in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California consisted of: 1) a quantitative analysis of the differences in diversity and abundance of the insect fauna colonizing and inhabiting diurnally and nocturnally excreted cattle droppings in four different pasture and rangeland ecosystems (natural woodland range, partially cleared woodland range, totally cleared woodland range, cultivated irrigated pasture); and 2) a study of the relationship between the diversity and abundance of insect inhabitants per cowpat and the rate of pat degradation.