The extended role of carrion: Insect consumption and hair taking at fox carcasses

The extended role of carrion: Insect consumption and hair taking at fox carcasses

Scavenging has been profusely studied in the last decades. However, carrion is more than a direct source of food for scavengers and decomposers, as it may provide many non-scavenging ecological functions. These include the provision of carrion insects to insectivores and hair to nest-building specie...

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Main Authors: Daniel Redondo-Gómez, José M. Gil-Sánchez, Moisés Gonzálvez, Carlos Martínez-Carrasco, Esther Sebastián-González, Lidia Rosell, Pablo Jiménez-Nájar, José A. Sánchez-Zapata, Daniel Martín-Vega, Marcos Moleón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-03-01
Series:Basic and Applied Ecology
Subjects:
Carnivore carcasses
Larvae
Necrokleptotrichy
Nest building
Non-scavenging functions
Non-trophic functions
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179124000999
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