From regional to global patterns in vertebrate scavenger communities subsidized by big game hunting

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 913-924

  Mateo Tomás, Patricia ^a   Olea, Pedro P ^a,b   Moleón, Marcos ^c   Vicente, Joaquín ^a   Botella, Francisco ^c   Selva, Nuria ^d   Viñuela, Javier ^a   Sánchez Zapata, José Antonio ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic food subsidies; Apex predators; Carrion; Food webs; Generalists; Vultures

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FIELD METHOD; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUNTING; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAMMAL; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; SCAVENGER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SPAIN;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AVES; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84937738777     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12330     Document Type: Article

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