Predation and Scavenging in the City: A Review of Spatio-Temporal Trends in Research

Many researchers highlight the role of urban ecology in a rapidly urbanizing world. Despite ecological and conservation implications relating to carnivores cities, our general understanding their potential food webs lacks synthesis. In this paper, we reviewed scientific literature on with aim identifying major biases topic research. particular, explored number articles dealing predation scavenging, assessed geographical distribution, biomes habitats represented literature, together richness species reported traits. Our results confirmed that scavenging is largely overlooked compared carnivore Moreover, research was biased towards cities located temperate biomes, while tropical regions were less well-represented, pattern more evident case scavenging. The both mainly wild domestic mammals high meat-based diets nocturnal habits, majority studies conducted interior zone peri-urban areas. Understanding trophic environments its consequences will require full recognition facets, which especially desirable given sprawl has been predicted coming decades.