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Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services

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Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans

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The relationship between body mass and field metabolic rate among individual birds and mammals

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Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

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Counting the cost of vulture decline—An appraisal of the human health and other benefits of vultures in India

(2008) Anil Markandya et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

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Scaling environmental change through the community-level: a trait-based response-and-effect framework for plants

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