Ecological Functions of Vertebrate Scavenging

• Main Authors: Beasley, James C., Olson, Zachary H., Selva, Nuria, DeVault, Travis L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2019
• Subjects: Animal Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Life Sciences; Natural Resources and Conservation; Natural Resources Management and Policy; Other Environmental Sciences; Other Veterinary Medicine; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Veterinary Infectious Diseases; Veterinary Medicine; Veterinary Microbiology and Immunobiology; Veterinary Preventive Medicine; Epidemiology; and Public Health; Zoology; Arctic; Fortuna; Climate change
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/icwdm_usdanwrc/2303; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/icwdm_usdanwrc/article/3291/viewcontent/Beasley_CEM_2019_Ecological_Functions_of_Vertebrate.pdf

Introduction The role of vertebrate scavenging in food web dynamics has historically been minimalized and portrayed as the activity of a select group of obligate scavengers (e.g., vultures), with a simplistic linkage between carrion and detritivores in food webs. Research in the last few decades, ho...