Interactions among terrestrial carnivores involve a complex interplay of competition,
predation and facilitation via carrion provisioning, and these negative and positive pathways …

Ecosystem services are natural processes that benefit humans. Birds contribute the four
types of services recognized by the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—provisioning …

During the last century humans have dramatically accelerated alterations and loss of
biodiversity worldwide. Changes to our planet's ecosystems by Humans go back tens of …

Human-driven declines of apex predators can trigger widespread impacts throughout
ecological communities. Reduced apex predator occupancy or activity can release …

What are birds worth—what is their actual dollar value to human society? To most of us in
the ornithological community, birds are invaluable. But in these times we need more specific …

Decomposition contributes to global ecosystem function by contributing to nutrient recycling,
energy flow, and limiting biomass accumulation. The decomposer organisms influencing this …

African swine fever (ASF) causes greater sanitary, social and economic impacts on swine
herds than many other swine diseases. Although ASF was first described in 1921 and it has …

The behaviour of free ranging wild boar (Sus scrofa) towards carcasses of their conspecifics
potentially infected with African swine fever (ASF) may significantly influence the course of …

ABSTRACT 1 We reviewed worldwide spatial patterns in the food habits of the brown bear
Ursus arctos in relation to geographical (latitude, longitude, altitude) and environmental …

The extent to which vertebrate carnivores shift facultatively between predation and
scavenging has recently been emphasized. Potentially, all carnivores have to do is wait until …