Modelling carcass disposal practices: Implications for the management of an ecological service provided by vultures

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 404-411

  Dupont, Hélène ^a   Mihoub, Jean Baptiste ^a   Bobbé, Sophie ^b   Sarrazin, François ^a  

^a CP51   (France)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Carcass disposal; Conservation; Ecological service; Feeding station; Gyps fulvus; Socio ecological system; Vulture

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CARRION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; OPTIMIZATION; PRIVATE SECTOR; RAPTOR; STAKEHOLDER; WASTE DISPOSAL;

FRANCE;

GYPS FULVUS;

EID: 84859160317     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02111.x     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. ®. Calcul des facteurs d'émissions et sources bibliographiques utilisées, version 3 (eds Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise d'Energie), Paris. 194 p.
2. Azmanis, P.N. (2009) Regulations of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) and management of feeding sites for birds of prey: a comparative approach between Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula and France) and the Balkan Peninsula. Buitres, muladares y legislation sanitaria: perspectives de un conflicto y sus consecuencias desde la biologia de la conservation. (eds J.A. Donázar, A. Margalida & D. Campion), pp. 521-525. Aranzadi, Donostia, España, 552 p.
3. Barreteau, O., Antona, M., d'Aquino, P., Aubert, S., Boissau, S., Bousquet, F., Daré, W., Etienne, M., Le Page, C., Mathevet, R., Trébuil, G. & Weber, J. (2003) Our companion modelling approach. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 6,.
4. Blanco, G., Lemus, J.Á., Martínez, F., Arroyo, B., García-Montijano, M. & Grande, J. (2009) Ingestion of multiple veterinary drugs and associated impact on vulture health: implications of livestock carcass elimination practices. Animal Conservation, 12, 571-580.
5. Bobbé, S. (2006) L'agropastoralisme au service de la biodiversité. Exemple d'un mode d'équarrissage écologique. Role des rapaces nécrophages dans la gestion de l'équarrissage. Rapport final du Programme "Action Publique, Agriculture et Biodiversité" 2003-2006.
6. Bosè, M. & Sarrazin, F. (2007) Competitive behaviour and feeding rate in a reintroduced population of Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus). Ibis, 149, 490-501.
7. Bousquet, F. & Le Page, C. (2004) Multi-agent simulations and ecosystem management: a review. Ecological Modelling, 176, 313-332.
8. Bousquet, F., Bakam, I., Proton, H., Le Page, C., Pasqual del Pobil, A., Mira, J. & Ali, M. (1998) Cormas: common-pool resources and multi-agent systems. Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence. 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems IEA-98-AIE Benicàssim, Castellón, Spain, June 1-4, 1998 Proceedings, Volume II. pp. 826-837. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.
9. Camiña, A. (2004) Consequences of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) on breeding success and food availability in Spanish vulture populations, Raptors Worldwide, Proceedings of the VI World Conference on Birds of Prey and Owls 18-23 May 2003 (eds B.U. Meyburg & R.D. Chancellor), pp. 27-44. World Working Group on Birds of Prey/MME-BirdLife Hungary. Budapest. 890 p.
10. Camiña, A. (2006) Food Exploitation by Griffon Vultures: the effect of vulture restaurants in Spain. Proceedings of the International Conservation and Management of Vulture Populations 14-16 November 2005 (eds D.C. Houston & S.E. Piper), pp. 149. Natural History Museum of Crete & WWF Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece. 176 p.
11. Collectif ComMod (2005) La modélisation comme outil d'accompagnement. Natures Sciences Sociétés, 13, 165-168.
12. Daily, G.C. & Matson, P.A. (2008) Ecosystem services: from theory to implementation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 9455-9456.
13. Daily, G.C., Polasky, S., Goldstein, J., Kareiva, P.M., Mooney, H.A., Pejchar, L., Ricketts, T.H., Salzman, J. & Shallenberger, R. (2009) Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7, 21-28.
14. DeVault, T.L., Rhodes, O.E. & Shivik, J.A. (2003) Scavenging by vertebrates: behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives on an important energy transfer pathway in terrestrial ecosystems. Oikos Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 102, 225-234.
15. Deygout, C., Gault, A., Sarrazin, F. & Bessa-Gomes, C. (2009) Modeling the impact of feeding stations on vulture scavenging service efficiency. Ecological Modelling, 220, 1826-1835.
16. Dupont, H., Mihoub, J.B., Becu, N. & Sarrazin, F. (2011) Modelling interactions between scavenger behaviour and farming practices: impacts on scavenger population and ecosystem service efficiency. Ecological Modelling, 222, 982-992.
17. Egoh, B., Rouget, M., Reyers, B., Knight, A.T., Cowling, R.M., van Jaarsveld, A.S. & Welz, A. (2007) Integrating ecosystem services into conservation assessments: a review. Ecological Economics, 63, 714-721.
18. Friedman, R. & Mundy, P.J. (1984) The use of "Restaurants" for the Survival of Vultures in South Africa. Vulture Biology and Management (eds S.R. Wilbur & J.A. Jackson), pp. 345-355. University of California Press, Berkeley.
19. Gault, A. (2006) Prospection alimentaire et impact de la distribution spatiale et temporelle des ressources trophiques chez le vautour Fauve (Gyps fulvus). PhD thesis, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
20. Guyot, P. & Honiden, S. (2006) Agent-based participatory simulations: merging multi-agent systems and role-playing games. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9,.
21. Houston, D.C. (1979) The adaptation of scavengers, In Serengeti, Dynamics of an Ecosystem (eds A.R. E Sinclair & M. Norton-Griffiths). University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
22. IUCN (2010).
23. Kremen, C., Gretchen, C.D., Alexandra-Maria, K. & Drew, S. (2008) Inadequate assessment of the ecosystem service rationale for conservation: reply to Ghazoul. Conservation Biology, 22, 795-798.
24. Markandya, A., Taylor, T., Longo, A., Murty, M.N., Murty, S. & Dhavala, K. (2008) Counting the cost of vulture decline--an appraisal of the human health and other benefits of vultures in India. Ecological Economics, 67, 194-204.
25. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis. World Resources Institute, Washington DC.
26. Oaks, J.L., Gilbert, M., Virani, M.Z., Watson, R.T., Meteyer, C.U., Rideout, B.A., Shivaprasad, H.L., Ahmed, S., Iqbal Chaudhry, M.J., Arshad, M., Mahmood, S., Ali, A. & Ahmed Khan, A. (2004) Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan. Nature, 427, 630-633.
27. Olea, P.P. & Mateo-Tomás, P. (2009) The role of traditional farming practices in ecosystem conservation: the case of transhumance and vultures. Biological Conservation, 142, 1844-1853.
28. Oro, D., Margalida, A., Carrete, M., Heredia, R. & Donázar, J.A. (2008) Testing the goodness of supplementary feeding to enhance population viability in an endangered vulture. PLoS ONE, 3, e4084.
29. Prakash, V., Pain, D.J., Cunningham, A.A., Donald, P.F., Prakash, N., Verma, A., Gargi, R., Sivakumar, S. & Rahmani, A.R. (2003) Catastrophic collapse of Indian white-backed Gyps bengalensis and long-billed Gyps indicus vulture populations. Biological Conservation, 109, 381-390.
30. Pyke, G.H., Pulliam, H.R. & Charnov, E.L. (1977) Optimal foraging - selective review of theory and tests. Quarterly Review of Biology, 52, 137-154.
31. Rosenzweig, L. (2003) Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise. Oxford University Press, New York.
32. Ruxton, G.D. & Houston, D.C.D.C. (2004) Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 228, 431-436.
33. Sarrazin, F., Bagnolini, C., Pinna, J.-L., Danchin, E. & Clobert, J. (1994) Re-introduction of the Griffon vulture Gyps fulvus in the Massif Central, France. Raptor Conservation Today (eds B.-U. Meyburg & R.D. Chancellor), pp. 479-491. WWGBP/The Pica Press, Berlin.
34. Sarrazin, F., Bobbé, S., Bureau, J.C. & Buronfosse, T. (2006) Rôle des rapaces nécrophages dans la gestion de l'équarrissage. Rapport final du Programme "Action Publique, Agriculture et Biodiversité" 2003-2006.
35. Şekercioǧlu, Ç.H. (2006) Increasing awareness of avian ecological function. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 464-471.
36. Şekercioǧlu, Ç.H., Daily, G.C. & Ehrlich, P.R. (2004) Ecosystem consequences of bird declines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 18042-18047.
37. Tella, J.L. (2001) Action is needed now, or BSE crisis could wipe out endangered birds of prey. Nature, 410, 408-408.
38. Terrasse, M., Bagnolini, C., Bonnet, J., Pinna, J.-F. & Sarrazin, F. (1994) Reintroduction of the Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus in the Massif Central, France. Raptor Conservation Today (ed B.U. Meyburg & R.D Chancellor), pp. 479-491. WWGBP/the Pica Press, Mountfield, Australia.
39. Terrasse, M., Sarrazin, F., Choisy, J.P., Clémente, C., Henriquet, S., Lécuyer, P., Pinna, J.L. & Tessier, C. (2004) A success story: the reintroduction of Eurasian Griffon Gyps fulvus and Black Aegypius monachus Vultures to France. Raptors Worldwide (eds B.U. Meyburg & R.D. Chancellor), pp. 127-145. World Conference on Birds of Prey and Owls, Budapest, Hungary, Proceedings, 890 p.
40. Thiollay, J.-M. (2006) The decline of raptors in West Africa: long-term assessment and the role of protected areas. Ibis, 148, 240-254.
41. Virani, M.Z., Kendall, C., Njoroge, P. & Thomsett, S. (2011) Major declines in the abundance of vultures and other scavenging raptors in and around the Masai Mara ecosystem, Kenya. Biological Conservation, 144, 746-752.
42. Wilson, E.E. & Wolkovich, E.M. (2011) Scavenging: how carnivores and carrion structure communities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26, 129-135.
43. Xirouchakis, S.M. & Andreou, G. (2009) Foraging behaviour and flight characteristics of Eurasian Griffons Gyps fulvus in the Island of Crete, Greece. Wildlife Biology, 15, 37-52.