Carrion provides a resource for a subset of animal species that deliver a critical ecosystem
service by consuming dead animal matter and recycling its nutrients. A growing number of …

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 …

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

Carrion is a valuable nutrient resource used by a diversity of vertebrates across the globe.
However, vertebrate scavenging ecology remains an understudied area of science …

Ecosystem services are receiving increasing attention among researchers and managers,
due to emerging recognition of their global extent and contribution towards human welfare …

Decomposition research is still in its infancy, but significant advances have occurred within
forensic anthropology and other disciplines in the past several decades. Decomposition …

Although there is a diversity of concerns about recent persistent declines in the abundances
of many species, the implications for the associated delivery of ecosystem services to people …

Scavenging, or the consumption of dead animal matter, has been documented for a wide
array of vertebrate taxa by naturalists and researchers for centuries. Yet, until recently, the …

Vultures provide an essential ecosystem service through removal of carrion, but globally,
many populations are collapsing and several species are threatened with extinction …

Roads now penetrate even the most remote parts of much of the world, but the majority of
research on the effects of roads on biota has been in less remote temperate environments …