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...
Main Authors: | Gjermund Gomo, Jenny Mattisson, Bjørn Roar Hagen, Pål Fossland Moa, Tomas Willebrand |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-06-01
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Series: | BMC Ecology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-017-0132-1 |
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