Browsing by Subject "Forensic Entomology"
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(2020-04-27)Several factors affect organisms involved in carrion decomposition, an ecological service where nutrients from heterotrophic biomass is recycled back into the ecosystem. Understanding how such factors impact these organisms ...
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(2015-12-08)The scuttle fly, Megaselia scalaris (Loew), is a Dipteran from the Phoridae family of medical, veterinary, and forensic importance. In the case of the latter, M. scalaris is commonly associated with indoor death scenes and ...
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(2021-12-15)Historically, vertebrate and invertebrate scavengers have been studied independent of one another (such as carrion being placed in carrion exclusion cages), or direct consequences of their interaction ignored (vertebrate ...
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(2013-07-24)Blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) interactions in decomposition ecology are well studied; however, the non-consumptive effects (NCE) of predators on the behavior and development of prey species have yet to be examined. The ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)It is commonly thought that blow flies are nocturnally inactive. Blowflies are often important in helping to estimate post mortem intervals (PMI) for corpses found at death scenes. If blow flies oviposit during nocturnal ...
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(2016-08-03)The objectives of this study were to determine the sensitivity of microbial metabolic community profiles, terrestrial and soil arthropod community structures and function, and soil chemistry dynamics associated with carrion ...