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African Vultures Don’t Follow Migratory Herds: Scavenger Habitat Use Is Not Mediated by Prey Abundance

The ongoing global decline in vulture populations raises major conservation concerns, but little is known about the factors that mediate scavenger habitat use, in particular the importance of abundance of live prey versus prey mortality. We test this using data from the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in E...

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Autores principales: Kendall, Corinne J., Virani, Munir Z., Hopcraft, J. Grant C., Bildstein, Keith L., Rubenstein, Daniel I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3885425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24421887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083470