Inter-specific interactions linking predation and scavenging in terrestrial vertebrate assemblages

Biological Reviews

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1042-1054

  Moleón, Marcos ^a,b   Sánchez Zapata, José A ^b   Selva, Nuria ^c   Donázar, José A ^d   Owen Smith, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Carrion; Ecosystem stability; Food web; Global change; Hyperpredation; Hypopredation; Inter specific competition; Inter specific facilitation; Vulture

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84925266466     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12097     Document Type: Article

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