Carrion provides a resource for a subset of animal species that deliver a critical ecosystem
service by consuming dead animal matter and recycling its nutrients. A growing number of …

Roads now penetrate even the most remote parts of much of the world, but the majority of
research on the effects of roads on biota has been in less remote temperate environments …

Since the origin of early Homo species during the Late Pliocene, interactions of humans with
scavenging birds and mammals have changed in form through shifting ecological scenarios …

Carrion is a valuable nutrient resource used by a diversity of vertebrates across the globe.
However, vertebrate scavenging ecology remains an understudied area of science …

Top carnivores have suffered widespread global declines, with well-documented effects on
mesopredators and herbivores. We know less about how carnivores affect ecosystems …

The particle size of the food resource strongly determines the structure and dynamics of food
webs. However, the ecological implications of carcass size variation for scavenging …

Biodiversity losses are increasing as a consequence of negative anthropogenic effects on
ecosystem dynamics. However, the magnitude and complexity of these effects may still be …

Scavenging, or the consumption of dead animal matter, has been documented for a wide
array of vertebrate taxa by naturalists and researchers for centuries. Yet, until recently, the …

Vultures provide an essential ecosystem service through removal of carrion, but globally,
many populations are collapsing and several species are threatened with extinction …

Food webs developed under classical theoretical models often depict simplistic interactions
among trophic levels linked by predation (Hairston et al. 1960). As a result, extensive …