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- Title
Too Much is Bad: Increasing Numbers of Livestock and Conspecifics Reduce Body Mass in an Avian Scavenger.
- Authors
Donázar, José A.; Barbosa, Jomar M.; García‐Alfonso, Marina; Overveld, Thijs; Gangoso, Laura; Riva, Manuel
- Abstract
Variation in body mass can serve as early warning signals of changes in the fitness prospects of animal populations facing environmental impacts. A 19-yr monitoring of changes in the body mass of Canarian Egyptian vultures ( I Neophron percnopterus i ) shows that it would be dependent of the availability of small vertebrate carcasses, which would be favored by variability in primary productivity, but depleted by high livestock pressure.
- Subjects
LIVESTOCK; LIVESTOCK carcasses; ANIMAL populations; CONSUMER behavior
- Publication
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2021, Vol 102, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2327-6096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bes2.1784