Evidence of forest restoration success and the conservation value of community-owned forests in Southwest China using dung beetles as indicators

• Casey D. Sullivan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Wildlife Institute at Beijing Forestry University, School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Haidian District, Beijing, China

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• Eleanor M. Slade,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Ming Bai,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

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• Kun Shi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kunshi@bjfu.edu.cn

  Affiliations The Wildlife Institute at Beijing Forestry University, School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Haidian District, Beijing, China, Eco-Bridge Continental, Huizhi Tower, Haidian District, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3731-8421

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• Philip Riordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Wildlife Institute at Beijing Forestry University, School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Haidian District, Beijing, China, Marwell Wildlife, Thompsons Lane, Hampshire, United Kingdom

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