Antoni Margalida

TL;DR: The results suggest that vulture populations are regulated as posited by the site-dependency hypothesis: as the population increases, average productivity decreases because progressively poorer territories are used, and the combined effects of the shrinkage of territories and the presence of floaters around supplementary feeding points seem to be the main causes of productivity decline.

TL;DR: The continued survival of vultures and large mammalian scavengers alongside humans is now severely in jeopardy, threatening the loss of the numerous ecosystem services from which contemporary and future humans could benefit.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors advocate policies that authorize the abandonment of livestock carcasses and favor populations of wild herbivores to help to maintain populations of avian scavengers, and incorporate conservation strategies into new European Commission regulations, which should be effective in 2011.

TL;DR: Although AFS are not effective to save bearded vultures from an expected population decline, they delay population extinction and can be a useful tool for prolonging population viability while combating illegal and indirect poisoning.

TL;DR: The need of describing and quantifying the role of these birds as providers of both regulating (rodent pest control and removal of livestock carcasses) and cultural ecosystem services is focused on and persisting conflicts with human interests are revisited.