José A. Donázar

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effect of wind-farms on the population dynamics of a globally endangered long-lived raptor in an area where the species maintains its greatest stronghold and wind farms are rapidly increasing.

TL;DR: An inverse relationship between fecundity and population size was found in this eagle population and was related to the year of pair establishment, being higher in recently occupied territories.

TL;DR: Sex and age differences in diet, as revealed by stable isotopes, may be the consequence of individual morphology (sexual size dimorphism) and re- productive constraints imposed by chick development since growing young require more nutritive prey than adults and yearlings.

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.