Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications

ESG, JMB and JMPG were supported by Juan de la Cierva contracts (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, MEC; IJCI-2015-24947, IJCI-2017-32149 and FJCI-2015-25632, respectively). ESG and LNA were also supported by Generalitat Valenciana (SEJI/2018/024 and ACIF/2019/056, respectively), ACA by the Govern de les Illes Balears (PD/039/2017) and MM by a Ramón y Cajal contract (MEC; RYC-2015-19231). EA was supported by La Caixa-Severo Ochoa International PhD Program 2015, ZMR by a postdoctoral contract co-funded by the Generalitat Valenciana and the European Social Fund (APOSTD/2019/016). (...) JDA is currently supported by a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2017-22783) co-funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación and the European Social Fund. (...) Several authors were funded by funds from the MEC (CGL2012-40013-C02-01/02, CGL2015-66966-C2-1-R, CGL2015-66966-C2-1-R2, CGL2017-89905-R and RTI2018-099609-B-C22) and from the Junta de Andalucía (RNM-1925). POV was supported by a research contract by the Univ. of Lleida. (...)