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dc.contributor.authorOrihuela Torres, Adrian Antonio-
dc.contributor.authorSebastián-González, E.-
dc.contributor.authorPérez-García, Juan Manuel-
dc.contributor.otherDepartamentos de la UMH::Biología Aplicadaes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-06T14:10:55Z-
dc.date.available2024-02-06T14:10:55Z-
dc.date.created2023-01-02-
dc.identifier.citationAnimal Conservation 26 (2023) 633–641es_ES
dc.identifier.issn1367-9430-
dc.identifier.issn1469-1795-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11000/31161-
dc.description.abstractOutdoor recreation has increased in recent decades, with an intensification after the COVID-19 lockdown. Previous studies have shown that disturbances from this activity may affect species behaviour and fitness, but its effect on ecological processes has been overlooked. Here, we test the impact of outdoor recreation on terrestrial vertebrate scavenger assemblage and scavenging patterns in El Hondo Natural Park, a Mediterranean wetland located in south-eastern Spain. We placed 185 carcasses monitored with camera traps between February 2020 and May 2021 in two areas: ‘public access area’, where visitors can freely access and carry out outdoor recreation, and ‘restricted area’, where visitors are not allowed. Our results showed that outdoor recreation altered the scavenger assemblage composition, especially affecting large species such as raptors. Non-native species scavenged almost four times more often on carcasses in public access areas than in the restricted areas, showing that human activities promote the presence of non-native species. Furthermore, vertebrates completely consumed 68.2% of the carcasses in the restricted area, decreasing to 46.7% in the public access area. In the restricted area, consumption time was shorter (111.8 vs. 157.5 h) and consumed biomass by vertebrate scavengers was larger (73.9 vs. 52.2%) than in public access area, evidencing that outdoor recreation also affects scavenging processes. Our study shows that outdoor recreation profoundly alters not only the scavenger assemblage but also key ecological processes such as carrion removal. This highlights the urgency of regulating tourism and maintaining restricted areas to preserve biodiversity and ecological processes, especially in highly anthropized landscapes.es_ES
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dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherWileyes_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccesses_ES
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectcamera trapes_ES
dc.subjectcarcasses_ES
dc.subjecthuman disturbancees_ES
dc.subjectnon-native specieses_ES
dc.subjectprotected areaes_ES
dc.subjectraptores_ES
dc.subjectscavengeres_ES
dc.subjecttourismes_ES
dc.subject.classificationEcologíaes_ES
dc.subject.otherCDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales::57 - Biología::574 - Ecología general y biodiversidades_ES
dc.titleOutdoor recreation alters terrestrial vertebrate scavenger assemblage and carrion removal in a protected Mediterranean wetlandes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12848es_ES
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