Carrion acts as a hotspot of animal activity within many ecosystems globally, attracting
scavengers that rely on this food source. However, many scavengers are invasive species …

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 …

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 …

Scavengers and decomposers provide an important ecosystem service by removing carrion
from the environment. Scavenging and decomposition are known to be temperature …

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

Scavenging is a widespread behaviour and an important process influencing food webs and
ecological communities. Large carnivores facilitate the movement of energy across trophic …

Although carrion ecology has received a great deal of scientific attention in recent years,
carrion supply is still poorly described in most ecosystems. Animals die from many causes …

Recent research has demonstrated how scavenging, the act of consuming dead animals,
plays a key role in ecosystem structure, functioning, and stability. A growing number of …

Disentangling the processes that shape the organization of ecological assemblages and its
implications for species coexistence is one of the foremost challenges of ecology. Although …

Vertebrate scavenging assemblages include two major functional groups: obligate
scavengers (ie, vultures), which depend totally on carrion and are undergoing severe …