Abstract
We monitored the vertebrate animals that visited 49 carcasses in eight Dutch nature areas, in different periods between May 2012 and November 2020 (Figure 1). A minimum of two carcasses had been monitored in each of these areas. The carcasses were placed in heathlands or forested areas, whereby we avoided completely open or densely forested places. Different vertebrate scavenger communities were present in these areas, allowing us to study the effect of different scavenger guilds on the carcass decomposition speed.
