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Scavenger Assemblage Behavior at Puma Kills in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Ecology and EvolutionScavengers structure food webs through consuming carrion and cycling nutrients in ecosystems. Scavenger assemblages are shaped by multiple factors, including intra‐ and interspecific competition, environmental conditions, and interactions with apex ...
Maximilian L. Allen +5 more
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Body Mass Index (BMI) Impacts Soil Chemical and Microbial Response to Human Decomposition
mSphere, 2022 Microorganisms are key decomposers of vertebrate mortalities, breaking down body tissues and impacting decomposition progress. During human decomposition, both extrinsic environmental factors and intrinsic cadaver-related factors have the potential to ...
Allison R. Mason +6 more
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Insects, 2022 Blow fly development is important in decomposition ecology, agriculture, and forensics. Much of the impact of these species is from immature samples, thus knowledge of their development is important to enhance or ameliorate their effects. One application
Carl E. Hjelmen +8 more
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Food composition and feeding ecology of the Arabian Red Fox Vulpes vulpes arabica Thomas 1902 in Sakaka northern Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
Journal of Bioscience and Applied Research, 2016 The food composition and feeding ecology of the Arabian Red Fox Vulpes vulpes arabica inhabiting Sakaka city in the northern part of Saudi Arabia was studied using stomach contents analysis. The analysis of 32 stomach contents during February 2015 to May
Walid Fathy Mohammad +1 more
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Big boned: How fat storage and other adaptations influenced large theropod foraging ecology.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Dinosaur foraging ecology has been the subject of scientific interest for decades, yet much of what we understand about it remains hypothetical. We wrote an agent-based model (ABM) to simulate meat energy sources present in dinosaur environments ...
Cameron C Pahl, Luis A Ruedas
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Carcass provisioning for scavenger conservation in a temperate forest ecosystem
Ecosphere, 2020 Carrion plays an essential role in shaping the structure and functioning of ecosystems and has far‐reaching implications for biodiversity conservation.
Jonas Stiegler +4 more
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White-headed Vultures Trigonoceps occipitalis show visual field characteristics of hunting raptors [PDF]
, 2017 The visual fields of Aegypiinae vultures have been shown to be adapted primarily to meet two key perceptual challenges of their obligate carrion-feeding behaviour: scanning the ground and preventing the sun’s image falling upon the retina.
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Local and regional ecological morphology of dung beetle assemblages across four biogeographic regions [PDF]
, 2011 Aim Niche partitioning within species assemblages is thought to influence species packing and/or total niche space occupied. The evolution of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae) is likely to have been strongly influenced by inter-specific competition, leading to
Aguirre +64 more
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West Nile Virus Infections in (European) Birds [PDF]
, 2016 West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the Flaviviridae family is an important emerging pathogen transmitted by mosquitoes of the Culex sp . wild-and (peri) domesticated birds act as the natural hosts of WNV.
Barzon, Luisa +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Human altered landscapes have caused declines in the diversity of wildlife where behaviorally plastic species (i.e., mesocarnivores and invasive species) tend to monopolize these areas and consume predictable and readily accessible food resources, such ...
Samantha J. Sawyer +6 more
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