Vertebrate scavenging communities
A scavenger is an animal that feeds on the carcass or remains of any dead animal which it did not participate in its killing. Scavenging is pervasive across the animal kingdom and almost all predator species use carrion to a certain extent in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. There is a group...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:221218 2023-05-15T18:40:22+02:00 Vertebrate scavenging communities Selva, Nuria Moleón, Marcos Sebastián-González, Esther DeVault, Travis L. Quaggiotto, Maria Martina Bailey, David M. Lambertucci, Sergio A. Margalida, Antoni Olea, Pedro P. Mateo-Tomás, Patricia Sánchez-Zapata, José Antonio 2019-08 https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/221218/ unknown Springer Selva, N., Moleón, M., Sebastián-González, E., DeVault, T. L., Quaggiotto, M. M. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/36668.html> , Bailey, D. M. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/3820.html> , Lambertucci, S. A. and Margalida, A. (2019) Vertebrate scavenging communities. In: Olea, P. P., Mateo-Tomás, P. and Sánchez-Zapata, J. A. (eds.) Carrion Ecology and Management. Series: Wildlife research monographs (2). Springer: Cham, pp. 71-99. ISBN 9783030164997 (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16501-7_4 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16501-7_4>) Book Sections PeerReviewed 2019 ftuglasgow https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16501-7_4 2022-09-22T22:16:06Z A scavenger is an animal that feeds on the carcass or remains of any dead animal which it did not participate in its killing. Scavenging is pervasive across the animal kingdom and almost all predator species use carrion to a certain extent in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. There is a group of animals, the obligate scavengers, which rely (almost) entirely on carrion. Among vertebrates, only birds have evolved into obligate scavengers, namely vultures, which suggests that the costs of adaptation to obligate scavenging are high. Obligate and facultative scavengers exhibit a wide array of adaptations to locate and exploit carrion across systems, including inexpensive locomotion to find the unpredictable carrion on savannas, caching carrion in cold tundra or chemotaxis in aquatic systems. Traditionally viewed as an opportunistic process, particularly for facultative scavengers, carrion consumption by vertebrates often follows complex and structured patterns and is crucial in maintaining the stability and structure of food webs. Book Part Tundra University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications 71 99 |
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A scavenger is an animal that feeds on the carcass or remains of any dead animal which it did not participate in its killing. Scavenging is pervasive across the animal kingdom and almost all predator species use carrion to a certain extent in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. There is a group of animals, the obligate scavengers, which rely (almost) entirely on carrion. Among vertebrates, only birds have evolved into obligate scavengers, namely vultures, which suggests that the costs of adaptation to obligate scavenging are high. Obligate and facultative scavengers exhibit a wide array of adaptations to locate and exploit carrion across systems, including inexpensive locomotion to find the unpredictable carrion on savannas, caching carrion in cold tundra or chemotaxis in aquatic systems. Traditionally viewed as an opportunistic process, particularly for facultative scavengers, carrion consumption by vertebrates often follows complex and structured patterns and is crucial in maintaining the stability and structure of food webs. |
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Selva, Nuria Moleón, Marcos Sebastián-González, Esther DeVault, Travis L. Quaggiotto, Maria Martina Bailey, David M. Lambertucci, Sergio A. Margalida, Antoni Vertebrate scavenging communities |
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Selva, N., Moleón, M., Sebastián-González, E., DeVault, T. L., Quaggiotto, M. M. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/36668.html> , Bailey, D. M. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/3820.html> , Lambertucci, S. A. and Margalida, A. (2019) Vertebrate scavenging communities. In: Olea, P. P., Mateo-Tomás, P. and Sánchez-Zapata, J. A. (eds.) Carrion Ecology and Management. Series: Wildlife research monographs (2). Springer: Cham, pp. 71-99. ISBN 9783030164997 (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16501-7_4 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16501-7_4>) |
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