King vulture's distribution in communal lands and natural protected areas of southern Yucatán, Mexico. The study area is indicated by the black rectangle in the small map. The information provided by local informants included sightings of the species (grey area) or the lack of observation during the past three years (slashed area), and the presence of roosting sites (black area).  

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... to 27,000 people, two-thirds of whom work in subsistence and cash crop agriculture (Haenn 2011), the region is delimited to the east and west by the meseta's 100 m contour which, at its highest, rises to 350 m above sea level. A central feature of the municipality is the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve whose southern boundary coincides with Mexico's border with Guatemala (Figure 3). During the past two decades, the southern Yucatán has attracted an array of biologists, conservationists, and social scientists because of the Biosphere Reserve (decreed in 1989) and because the region supports Mexico's largest expanse of tropical forest (Martínez and Galindo-Leal 2002;Vester et al. 2007). ...

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... people's experiences with the species were restricted to sightings at garbage disposal sites or along highways where the king vultures scavenged road kill (Table 1b). While king vultures were observed in the 29 of the 36 ejidos, roosting sites were reported in only 12 (Figure 3). ...