Nonetheless, while there was a strong trend in carcass acquisition by avian scavengers in the absence of mesopredators, the avian scavenging community could not entirely compensate for the lack of mesopredator scavenging, largely driven by high scavenging rates of Virginia opossums at our control sites.
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Effect of mammalian mesopredator exclusion on vertebrate scavenging communities.
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