Scavenging on a pulsed resource: quality matters for corvids but density for mammals

Scavenging on a pulsed resource: quality matters for corvids but density for mammals

Abstract Background Human food subsidies can provide predictable food sources in large quantities for wildlife species worldwide. In the boreal forest of Fennoscandia, gut piles from moose (Alces alces) harvest provide a potentially important food source for a range of opportunistically scavenging p...

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Main Authors: Gjermund Gomo, Jenny Mattisson, Bjørn Roar Hagen, Pål Fossland Moa, Tomas Willebrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Ecology
Subjects:
Carrion ecology
Scavenging
Human subsidies
Pulsed resources
Gut piles
Scavenger community
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-017-0132-1

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