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Trophic Facilitation or Limitation? Comparative Effects of Pumas and Black Bears on the Scavenger Community

Scavenging is a widespread behaviour and an important process influencing food webs and ecological communities. Large carnivores facilitate the movement of energy across trophic levels through the scavenging and decomposition of their killed prey, but competition with large carnivores is also likely...

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Autores principales: Allen, Maximilian L., Elbroch, L. Mark, Wilmers, Christopher C., Wittmer, Heiko U.
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/PMC4092109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25010629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102257