Forensic taphonomy as a discipline requires standardization to satisfy Daubert criteria for
scientific data to be admissible in court. In response, there has been a shift towards …

Ecologists have traditionally focused on herbivore carcasses as study models in scavenging
research. However, some observations of scavengers avoiding feeding on carnivore carrion …

Free-ranging cats (Felis catus) are globally distributed invasive carnivores that markedly
impact biodiversity. Here, to evaluate the potential threat of cats, we develop a …

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 …

Understanding the transmission patterns of African swine fever (ASF) among wild boar (Sus
scrofa) is an issue of major interest, especially in the wake of the current ASF epidemic …

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 …

Carrion ecology, ie the decomposition and recycling of dead animals, has traditionally been
neglected as a key process in ecosystem functioning. Similarly, despite the large threats that …

Carrion of large animals is an extremely nutrient rich, ephemeral resource that is essential
for many species, but is scarce in the anthropogenic Western-European landscape due to …

Many apex scavenger species, including nearly all obligate scavengers, are in a state of
rapid decline and there is growing evidence these declines can drastically alter ecological …

Carrion resources sustain a complex and diverse community of both vertebrate and
invertebrate scavengers, either obligate or facultative. However, although carrion ecology …