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ArticleRoyal Society open science2020

Fear the reaper: ungulate carcasses may generate an ephemeral landscape of fear for rodents.

S C Frank, R Blaalid, M Mayer, A Zedrosser, S M J G Steyaert

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
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7citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

S C FrankFaculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, 3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-8153-6656
R BlaalidNorwegian Institute for Nature Research, Thormøhlensgate 55, 5006 Bergen.ORCID 0000-0002-3883-8189
M MayerDepartment of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 8410 Rønde, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-9905-3625
A ZedrosserFaculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, 3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4417-3037
S M J G SteyaertFaculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, 3800 Bø i Telemark, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-6564-6361
University of South-Eastern Norway · NOAarhus University · DKNorwegian Institute for Nature Research · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal carcasses provide an ephemeral pulse of nutrients for scavengers that use them. Carcass sites can increase species interactions and/or ephemeral, localized landscapes of fear for prey within the vicinity. Few studies have applied the landscape of fear to carcasses. Here, we use a mass die-off of reindeer caused by lightning in Norway to test whether rodents avoided larger scavengers (e.g. corvids and fox). We used the presence and abundance of faeces as a proxy for carcass use over the course of 2 years and found that rodents showed the strongest avoidance towards changes in raven abundance (

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carcass decompositionCorvus corvaxfear ecologymass mortalityRangifer tarandusscavengers

Identifiers

PMID32742677
PMCPMC7353961
OpenAlexW3032998986

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