A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - the natural history of a behaviour

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dc.contributor.authorKane, Adam
dc.contributor.authorHealy, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorGuillerme, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorRuxton, Graeme D.
dc.contributor.authorJackson, Andrew L.
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderSeventh Framework Programmeen
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-25T11:44:45Z
dc.date.available2016-10-25T11:44:45Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-17
dc.description.abstractDespite its prevalence, the importance of scavenging to carnivores is difficult to ascertain in modern day forms and impossible to study directly in extinct species. Yet, there are certain intrinsic and environmental features of a species that push it towards a scavenging lifestyle. These can be thought of as some of the principal parameters in optimal foraging theory namely, encounter rate and handling time. We use these components to highlight the morphologies and environments that would have been conducive to scavenging over geological time by focusing on the dominant vertebrate groups of the land, sea and air. The result is a synthesis on the natural history of scavenging. The features that make up our qualitative scale of scavenging can be applied to any given species and allow us to judge the likely importance of this foraging behaviour.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council GOIP/2015/81; Science Foundation Ireland; European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013)/ERC Grant Agreement number 311092en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationKane, A., Healy, K., GuillermE, T., Ruxton, G. D. and Jackson, A. L. (2016) ‘A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - the natural history of a behaviour’, Ecography, 40(2), pp. 324-334. doi. 10.1111/ecog.02817en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/ecog.02817
dc.identifier.endpage334
dc.identifier.issn0906-7590
dc.identifier.issn1600-0587
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journaltitleEcographyen
dc.identifier.startpage324
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3213
dc.identifier.volume40
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP2::ERC/311092/EU/The Origin of Jawed Vertebrates and the Evolution of Morphology in Deep Time/JAWEVOLen
dc.rights© 2016 The Authors. Ecography © 2016 Nordic Society Oikos. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Kane, A., Healy, K., GuillermE, T., Ruxton, G. D. and Jackson, A. L. (2016) ‘A recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - the natural history of a behaviour’, Ecography, 40(2), pp. 324-334. doi. 10.1111/ecog.02817, which is published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02817. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.en
dc.subjectOrnithologyen
dc.subjectScavengingen
dc.subjectCarrionen
dc.subjectVertebratesen
dc.titleA recipe for scavenging in vertebrates - the natural history of a behaviouren
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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