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Scavenger Guild Interactions

Scavenger Guild Interactions is a theoretical construct in ecological science that denotes the network of competitive and facilitative relationships among functionally related species that consume dead organic matter, distinguished by its focus on how resource partitioning, temporal dynamics, and species trait variation shape scavenging efficiency and community-level decomposition processes.

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144

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101

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Scavenging: how carnivores and carrion structure communities

Erin E. Wilson Rankin, E. M. Wolkovich · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2011 · 564 citations

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Factors affecting carcass use by a guild of scavengers in European temperate woodland

Nuria Selva, Bogumiła Jędrzejewska, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski et al. · Canadian Journal of Zoology · 2005 · 343 citations

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The avian scavenger crisis: Looming extinctions, trophic cascades, and loss of critical ecosystem functions

Evan R. Buechley, Çaḡan H. Şekercioḡlu · Biological Conservation · 2016 · 308 citations

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Resource dispersion and consumer dominance: scavenging at wolf‐ and hunter‐killed carcasses in Greater Yellowstone, USA

Christopher C. Wilmers, Daniel R. Stahler, Robert L. Crabtree et al. · Ecology Letters · 2003 · 267 citations · Full text

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Humans and Scavengers: The Evolution of Interactions and Ecosystem Services

Marcos Moleón, José A. Sánchez‐Zapata, Antoni Margalida et al. · BioScience · 2014 · 254 citations · Full text

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Authors

144

  1. JA
    José A. Sánchez‐Zapata

    Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx, Spain

    6 publications · 534 citations

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  2. MM
    Marcos Moleón

    Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx, Spain

    4 publications · 501 citations

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  3. JA
    José A. Donázar

    Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain

    4 publications · 491 citations

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  4. ES
    Esther Sebastián‐González

    Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx, Spain

    4 publications · 254 citations

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  5. AM
    Antoni Margalida

    Universitat de Lleida, Spain

    3 publications · 364 citations

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Institutions

101

  1. Universitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx

    Elche, Spain

    6 h-index

    26 publications

    2.4K citations

  2. University of Alicante

    Alicante, Spain

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    97 citations

  3. Estación Biológica de Doñana

    Seville, Spain

    3 h-index

    12 publications

    971 citations

  4. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    425 citations

  5. Savannah River National Laboratory

    Aiken, United States

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    425 citations

  6. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    112 citations

  7. National Museums of Kenya

    Nairobi, Kenya

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    142 citations

  8. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos

    Ciudad Real, Spain

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    110 citations

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  1. Biological Conservation

    3 publications · 375 citations

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  2. Scientific Reports

    3 publications · 109 citations

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  3. Ecology

    2 publications · 211 citations

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  4. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    2 publications · 210 citations

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