Limited functional redundancy in vertebrate scavenger guilds fails to compensate for the loss of raptors from urbanized sandy beaches

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-63

  Huijbers, Chantal M ^a,b   Schlacher, Thomas A ^b   Schoeman, David S ^b   Olds, Andrew D ^b   Weston, Michael A ^c   Connolly, Rod M ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carrion; Coastal management; Functional loss; Human impacts; Sandy beaches; Scavenging; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CORVIDA; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84919393886     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12282     Document Type: Article

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