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| Date: | 2000 |
| Title: | Human refuse as a major ecological factor in medieval urban vertebrate communities |
| Contributor: | Winder, N. Bailey, G. Charles, R. |
| Author: | O'Connor, T.P. |
| Description: | Organic refuse, such as food and butchery waste, was commonly deposited in dumps andpits in medieval towns throughout northern Europe. These deposits of refuse attracted and supponed a diverse communily of scavengers and their predators. The organic refuse can be seen as a source of energy that maintained food-webs of donor-controlled populations, giving them potentially high population densities, foundercontrolled response to perturbation, and perhaps a strongly stochastic element in determining which species became dominant at any particular location. The red kite is an example of a scavenger which was strongly dependent on refuse deposition, and it is argued that cats in medieval towns may have lived largely as predators within the refuse-supported food-webs. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/68498 |
| Other Identifier: | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/935/ |
| AMAD ID: | 561806 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
