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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Main Authors: Corinne J Kendall, Munir Z Virani, J Grant C Hopcraft, Keith L Bildstein, Daniel I Rubenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885425?pdf=render