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 …

The transport of resource subsidies by animals has been documented across a range of
species and ecosystems. Although many of these studies have shown that animal resource …

Decomposition contributes to global ecosystem function by contributing to nutrient recycling,
energy flow, and limiting biomass accumulation. The decomposer organisms influencing this …

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 …

Aim Anthropogenic food subsidies are increasingly present in ecosystems, but their impacts
remain poorly understood. Big game hunting is a growing activity that annually subsidizes …

Predation and scavenging have been classically understood as independent processes,
with predator–prey interactions and scavenger–carrion relationships occurring separately …

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 …

The decomposition of animal biomass (carrion) contributes to the recycling of energy and
nutrients through ecosystems. Whereas the role of plant decomposition in ecosystems is …

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 …

Fish are both consumers and prey, and as such part of a dynamic trophic network.
Measuring how they are trophically linked, both directly and indirectly, to other species is …