Table 4 Comparison of arrival times of scavenger species at rabbit carcasses between treatments analyzed using a generalized linear model with identity link.

From: Roads do not increase carrion use by a vertebrate scavenging community

Species

Comparison

Coefficient

p

Coyote

Forest vs road

1.616

0.634

Forest vs power line

−0.945

0.846

Road vs power line

−2.560

0.344

Turkey vulture

Forest vs road

0.595

0.851

Forest vs power line

3.154

0.001

Road vs power line

2.560

0.043

Opossum

Forest vs road

1.095

0.843

Forest vs power line

3.200

0.342

Road vs power line

2.105

0.698

Gray fox*

Road vs power line

−0.200

0.899

  1. Carcasses were placed in pine forests >20 yrs old at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC, December 2016-March 2017. A significance level of 0.05 was used for all models.
  2. *Some pairwise comparisons not calculated due to small sample sizes.