Global change influences scavenging and carrion decomposition

The global biomass of wild mammals

(2023) Lior Greenspoon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hyphae move matter and microbes to mineral microsites: Integrating the hyphosphere into conceptual models of soil organic matter stabilization

(2022) Craig R. See et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional differences in scavenger communities and the speed of carcass decomposition

(2022) Elke Wenting et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Mass mortality events and declining obligate scavengers in the Anthropocene: Social feeders may be critical

(2022) C. Baruzzi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Large-Scale Quantification and Correlates of Ungulate Carrion Production in the Anthropocene

(2022) Jon Morant et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Diverse Effects of Climate, Land Use, and Insects on Dung and Carrion Decomposition

(2022) Jana Englmeier et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Priority effects and density promote coexistence between the facultative predator Chrysomya rufifacies and its competitor Calliphora stygia

(2022) Blake M. Dawson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Increased abundance of a common scavenger affects allocation of carrion but not efficiency of carcass removal in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone

(2022) Hannah C. Gerke et al.   Scientific Reports

Integrating terrestrial scavenging ecology into contemporary wildlife conservation and management

(2022) Jessica R. Patterson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The emission of volatile organic compounds during the initial decomposition stage of food waste and its relationship with the bacterial community

(2022) Yuxue Cui et al.   Environmental Technology & Innovation

Climate-driven animal mass mortality events: is there a role for scavengers?

(2022) Philip S Barton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Linking bacteria, volatiles and insects on carrion: the role of temporal and spatial factors regulating inter-kingdom communication via volatiles

(2022) Christian von Hoermann et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Daily activity timing in the Anthropocene

(2022) Neil A. Gilbert et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Not avian but mammalian scavengers efficiently consume carcasses under heavy snowfall conditions: a case from northern Japan

(2021) Hiroto Enari et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Monitoring the dead as an ecosystem indicator

(2021) Thomas M. Newsome et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Megafires attract avian scavenging but carcasses still persist

(2021) Thomas M. Newsome et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Functional traits driving species role in the structure of terrestrial vertebrate scavenger networks

(2021) Esther Sebastián‐González et al.   ECOLOGY

Temperature dynamics in different body regions of decomposing vertebrate remains

(2021) Philip S. Barton et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

Effects on carrion consumption in a mammalian scavenger community when dominant species are excluded

(2021) Jorge Tobajas et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Effects of red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) control on carrion use by vertebrate scavengers

(2021) Kelsey L. Turner et al.   Food Webs

Effect of mammalian mesopredator exclusion on vertebrate scavenging communities

(2020) Kelsey L. Turner et al.   Scientific Reports

Death and Decomposition in Aquatic Ecosystems

(2020) M. Eric Benbow et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications

(2020) Esther Sebastián‐González et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A dead giveaway: Foraging vultures and other avian scavengers respond to auditory cues

(2020) Craig R. Jackson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Scavenging in the Anthropocene: human impact drives vertebrate scavenger species richness at a global scale

(2019) Esther Sebastián‐González et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Towards Quantifying Carrion Biomass in Ecosystems

(2019) Philip S. Barton et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Avoidance of carnivore carcasses by vertebrate scavengers enables colonization by a diverse community of carrion insects

(2019) Carlos Muñoz-Lozano et al.   PLoS One

Dynamic soil nutrient and moisture changes under decomposing vertebrate carcasses

(2019) Maria-Martina Quaggiotto et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The Components and Spatiotemporal Dimension of Carrion Biomass Quantification

(2019) Marcos Moleón et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Humans, but not their dogs, displace pumas from their kills: An experimental approach

(2019) Justin P. Suraci et al.   Scientific Reports

Forensic taphonomy: Vertebrate scavenging in the temperate southwestern Cape, South Africa

(2018) Maximilian J. Spies et al.   FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

(2018) Kaitlyn M. Gaynor et al.   SCIENCE

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

(2018) Marlee A. Tucker et al.   SCIENCE

Mortality hotspots: Nitrogen cycling in forest soils during vertebrate decomposition

(2018) Sarah W. Keenan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of vulture exclusion on carrion consumption by facultative scavengers

(2018) Jacob E. Hill et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Special delivery: scavengers direct seed dispersal towards ungulate carcasses

(2018) S. M. J. G. Steyaert et al.   Biology Letters

Necrobiome framework for bridging decomposition ecology of autotrophically and heterotrophically derived organic matter

(2018) M. Eric Benbow et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Understanding how mammalian scavengers use information from avian scavengers: cue from above

(2017) Adam Kane et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Annual mass drownings of the Serengeti wildebeest migration influence nutrient cycling and storage in the Mara River

(2017) Amanda L. Subalusky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass mortality events and the role of necrophagous invertebrates

(2017) Jeffery K Tomberlin et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

The avian scavenger crisis: Looming extinctions, trophic cascades, and loss of critical ecosystem functions

(2016) Evan R. Buechley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - the natural history of a behaviour

(2016) Adam Kane et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Substantial long-term effects of carcass addition on soil and plants in a grassy eucalypt woodland

(2016) Philip S. Barton et al.   Ecosphere

Invasive carnivores alter ecological function and enhance complementarity in scavenger assemblages on ocean beaches

(2015) Marion B. Brown et al.   ECOLOGY

Carcass size shapes the structure and functioning of an African scavenging assemblage

(2015) Marcos Moleón et al.   OIKOS

Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events

(2015) Samuel B. Fey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rewriting ecological succession history: did carrion ecologists get there first?

(2015) Jean-Philippe Michaud et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Trophic Facilitation or Limitation? Comparative Effects of Pumas and Black Bears on the Scavenger Community

(2014) Maximilian L. Allen et al.   PLoS One

Delayed insect access alters carrion decomposition and necrophagous insect community assembly

(2014) Jennifer L. Pechal et al.   Ecosphere

Urbanisation alters processing of marine carrion on sandy beaches

(2013) Chantal M. Huijbers et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Facultative predation and scavenging by mammalian carnivores: seasonal, regional and intra-guild comparisons

(2013) Laura M. Pereira et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Carrion decomposition causes large and lasting effects on soil amino acid and peptide flux

(2013) Bennett C.T. Macdonald et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Resource unpredictability promotes species diversity and coexistence in an avian scavenger guild: a field experiment

(2012) A. Cortés-Avizanda et al.   ECOLOGY

The role of carrion in maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems

(2012) Philip S. Barton et al.   OECOLOGIA

Scavenger community response to the removal of a dominant scavenger

(2011) Z. H. Olson et al.   OIKOS

Scavenging: how carnivores and carrion structure communities

(2011) Erin E. Wilson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Roadmap for Bridging Basic and Applied Research in Forensic Entomology

(2010) J.K. Tomberlin et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

How do roads affect the habitat use of an assemblage of scavenging raptors?

(2009) Sergio A. Lambertucci et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Wolves modulate soil nutrient heterogeneity and foliar nitrogen by configuring the distribution of ungulate carcasses

(2009) Joseph K. Bump et al.   ECOLOGY

Bearded vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) prefer fatty bones

(2008) Antoni Margalida   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY