🇪🇦 PhD candidate at University of Vienna 🇦🇹 | Working with birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems 🦜🦇🍫🇵🇪
Pablo Aycart Lazo
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📢 A beetle outcompeting jaguars and vultures for carrion?
In this #carrionecology study we recently published in Scientific Reports, we show that Coprphanaeus lancifer 🪲 buried >90% of the 🐹 carcasses deployed in terra firme Amazonian forests during the wet season!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 A beetle outcompeting jaguars and vultures for carrion?
In this #carrionecology study we recently published in Scientific Reports, we show that Coprphanaeus lancifer 🪲 buried >90% of the 🐹 carcasses deployed in terra firme Amazonian forests during the wet season!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We deployed a total of 52 guinea pig carcasses in a lowland rainforest in southern Peru. At first, we just wanted to characterize the necrophagous arthropod community and its compositional changes across habitats and seasons, but we found something much more interesting...
Consequently, carcasses disappeared earlier in terra firme in the wet season than in floodplains and the dry season 👇
