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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Basic and Applied Ecology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179124000999 |
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