Avoidance of carnivore carcasses by vertebrate scavengers enables colonization by a diverse community of carrion insects

• Carlos Muñoz-Lozano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Muñoz-Lozano, Daniel Martín-Vega

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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• Daniel Martín-Vega ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Muñoz-Lozano, Daniel Martín-Vega

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: daniel.martinve@uah.es

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, SW, London, United Kingdom, Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-5441

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• Carlos Martínez-Carrasco,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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• José A. Sánchez-Zapata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biology, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain

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• Zebensui Morales-Reyes,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Biology, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4529-8651

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• Moisés Gonzálvez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Regional Campus of International Excellence “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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• Marcos Moleón

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC, Seville, Spain

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